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Ron Green Jr. We have arrived at the end, that Super Bowl moment when an estimated 8 million pounds of avocadoes are sold.

At lunch time Thursday, the images of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald playing in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship is on the middle flat screen inside the men's locker room at Quail Hollow Club.

When Golf World magazine released its player rankings of the courses used on the PGA Tour, Quail Hollow Club was 14th of the 52 courses included.

When Johnson Wagner decided to keep his mustache, which first sprouted during a Thanksgiving week visit to his in-laws' home in Richmond, Va., he promised his wife, Katie, that if he didn't play his way into the Masters, he'd shave it in April.

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The Panthers didn't deliver a playoff appearance this season, but they delivered fun. Considering where the franchise was a year ago, that's more than enough.

Before we turn out the lights on 2011, here are five things from the golf year that I will remember: Rory McIlroy’s season.

You thought you had the NFL figured out, didn't you?

In the 25 years since John Feinstein pulled the curtain back on then-Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight in "A Season On The Brink," he has told the stories of sports figures big and small.

Do you Tebow?

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Ron Green Jr.
Ron Green Jr. writes about golf, football and other sports for The Charlotte Observer.