PGA Tour Professional Shaun Micheel won the 2003 PGA Championship and finished as the runner-up in 2006.  He also lost his mother to cancer in October of last year, so Monday he passed up a chance to try to qualify for the U.S. Open in favor of a trip to the Water's Edge Country Club in Penhook to Swing Fore a Cure, the American Cancer Society's fundraiser for cancer research.  To date, the event has raised nearly a million dollars for the cause.

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