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NBC/Golf Channel’s Mark Rolfing returns from cancer scare, will work Tournament of Champions
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“Mark Rolfing could not imagine anything keeping him away from a golf tournament at Kapalua. Not even cancer,” Doug Ferguson of the Associated Press writes. “‘I cannot believe how good it is to hear my voice,’ Rolfing said, repeating a standard greeting. That voice was filled with so much enthusiasm it sounded as though it could have been coming from the television instead of a telephone.” Rolfing, an NBC/Golf Channel analyst and a Maui resident, returns to work at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions this week after a five-month battle with a rare form of cancer.
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