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Shaping up to be a Phil Mickelson-Arizona State weekend?

It’s still only Friday but could the stars be aligning for a Phil Mickelson-Arizona State weekend?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s still only Friday but could the stars be aligning for a Phil Mickelson-Arizona State weekend?

Let’s set the stage.

ASU is hosting the NCAA Championships this week in Scottsdale. Grayhawk Golf Club is home to 24 women’s teams this week, then 30 men’s teams next week. ASU is one of five schools to have a men’s and women’s team represented here.

It’s worth noting that ASU is also the only team ever to claim both NCAA titles in the same year. The Sun Devils did that in 1990.

Grayhawk, hosting the first of three straight NCAAs, is also home to Phil’s Grill, a restaurant in the clubhouse dedicated to Mickelson and his many golf accomplishments.

Framed art of Phil Mickelson winning the Masters at Phil’s Grill at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Photo by Golfweek.

There is framed art of Lefty sporting the green jacket after winning the Masters. There are signed flags, magazine covers and commemorative plaques.

There’s also a framed flag and photo from Mickelson’s win in the 2005 PGA Championship, which he won at Baltrusrol.

That PGA is among the five majors and 44 wins Mickelson has piled up over the years. On the flip side, he hasn’t recorded a top-10 finish on the PGA Tour since August, a span of 16 starts, his last top-10 at a major was nearly five years ago at the 2016 British Open, and he finished 69^th at the Wells Fargo Championship after holding the first-round lead two weeks ago.

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He opened this year’s PGA with a 70, then backed that up with a 69 on Friday to take the clubhouse lead and fans were buzzing about Lefty making a weekend charge.

With ASU’s golf teams looking for another double-dip, attempting to do so at Grayhawk of all places, and with Mickelson making headlines in a major, it’s shaping up to potentially be a heck of a weekend for the Sun Devils.

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Shaping up to be a Phil Mickelson-Arizona State weekend?

It’s still only Friday but could the stars be aligning for a Phil Mickelson-Arizona State weekend?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s still only Friday but could the stars be aligning for a Phil Mickelson-Arizona State weekend?

Let’s set the stage.

It’s worth noting that ASU is also the only team ever to claim both NCAA titles in the same year. The Sun Devils did that in 1990.

Grayhawk, hosting the first of three straight NCAAs, is also home to Phil’s Grill, a restaurant in the clubhouse dedicated to Mickelson and his many golf accomplishments.

There is framed art of Lefty sporting the green jacket after winning the Masters. There are signed flags, magazine covers and commemorative plaques.

There’s also a framed flag and photo from Mickelson’s win in the 2005 PGA Championship, which he won at Baltrusrol.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPJPP4MtBOG/

He opened this year’s PGA with a 70, then backed that up with a 69 on Friday to take the clubhouse lead and fans were buzzing about Lefty making a weekend charge.

Watch: Grayhawk’s closing holes offer intrigue at NCAA Championships

With drone video as the backdrop, Grayhawk’s Director of Golf walks us through holes Nos. 15, 16, 17 and 18.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Grayhawk’s Raptor Course is the stage for the next three years of the NCAA Championships for the men and women. It’s the first time one venue will host the event consecutively.

The Tom Fazio-design will provide plenty of challenge and intrigue to the 30 men’s teams and 24 women’s teams competing for national titles.

Grayhawk’s Director of Golf Joe Shershenovich says his course is ready to go. He gives a lot of credit to the Director of Agronomy Ernie Pock.

“He’s got this golf course in unbelievable shape,” Shershenovich said, adding that they’ve been working for three years to get ready for this.

And now it’s here.

The format for both championships consists of stroke play followed by a match of the top remaining eight teams. How these teams navigate the formats as well as the golf course will be interesting to watch.

With spectacular drone video footage as the backdrop, Shershenovich walks us through holes Nos. 15, 16, 17 and 18.

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Arizona State women’s golf team ready for run at ninth national title

The No. 11 Sun Devils will enjoy a home game as Arizona State hosts the 2021 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Arizona State golf standout Olivia Mehaffey was looking forward to a stellar senior season last season, capped off with the opportunity to play for an NCAA championship on a home course.

That 2020 season didn’t exactly go as planned with the coronavirus pandemic derailing those plans.

The native of Belfast, Ireland, decided to take the NCAA up on its offer of an extra season for those spring sport athletes whose seasons were adversely affected.

Now that long-awaited chance is here, as the No. 11 Sun Devils join 23 other regional qualifiers for the six-day NCAA women’s golf championship which starts on Friday at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale.

The men’s event starts on May 28 on the same course, marking the sixth time in history that both will have been held at the same venue the same year.

“That’s a big reason I decided to come back,” Mehaffey said. “It was tough missing out last season but that just gave us more time to get to know this course. We’ve been preparing for this and we’re ready to go.”

Those in the Sun Devil camp insist there is no pressure as the home team or as one of the leading contenders. ASU is making its 36th appearance in the event and comes in boasting an NCAA-best eight titles, the last coming in 2017.

Mehaffey (73.94) is the lone senior in ASU’s starting five. She is joined by junior Alessandra Fanali (74.13), sophomores Linn Grant (70.70) and Amanda Linner (74.39) and freshman Ashley Menne (73.71). Grant tied for second at the regional, aided by a 2-under in the final round.

Coach Missy Farr-Kaye says there is more pressure in the regional, the step before nationals. The Sun Devils placed second in the Columbus, Ohio regional, bouncing back nicely after a tough first day in which weather conditions were difficult.

“If we’ve learned anything in the last year it’s about how to adjust,” Farr-Kaye said. “It can be weather conditions or other things. I have really been proud of this team and how they have been able to adapt. That’s not always easy.”

ASU and Arizona are among the six Pac-12 teams in the field. Only the SEC has more at seven, with that group led by No. 1 South Carolina.

For Mehaffey the event will mark the end of her ASU career. She’ll be turning professional as soon as the event wraps up, competing in a Symetra Tour event in Florida two days later.

The Sun Devils say they’re focused on enjoying the experience, rather than the pressure that comes with playing for a championship.

“This is the last time we’re going to play together so we just want to go out there and have fun,” Mehaffey said. “We want to enjoy the environment and the atmosphere and see what happens. Not everybody gets to play for a championship close to home so we’re excited about that opportunity.”

Arizona is part of the national tournament field for a 23rd time, with three titles to its credit, the most recent coming in 2018. The Wildcats placed fifth in the Stanford regional led by the performance of senior Yu-Sang Hou, who was fourth individually.

The entire event will be held on the 7,151-yard, par-72 Raptor course, which is challenging.

“There’s really not a hole where you can relax. It’s a tough course and the greens are hard to read,” Grant said. “We have played it so we’ll know it better than the other teams so that’s definitely an advantage but we’re still going to have to play well.”

NCAA Women’s Golf championship

Site: Grayhawk Golf Club Scottsdale (Raptor Course)

Format: 54 holes of stroke play (Friday-Sunday). Following the first three rounds, the top-15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team advance to the final day of stroke play Monday to determine the top eight teams for match play competition and the 72-hole stroke play individual champion. The top eight teams then compete in match play for the NCAA Championship on with quarter- and semifinals on Tuesday and the final on Wednesday.

Defending champion: There was no tournament last year due to COVID-19 (Duke won in 2019).

Qualifying teams: Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Baylor, Duke, Florida State, Georgia, Kent State, Kentucky, LSU, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Mississippi, Oklahoma State, Oregon, South Carolina, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest.

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‘We’re not done yet’: Kent State, the lone mid-major at the women’s NCAA Championship, is confident and ready to go

Kent State is just as good as, if not better than, the Power 5 schools in the field for the NCAA Championship, and they intend to prove it.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — They’ve won 22 consecutive conference championships. This year marks the fourth straight season—and eighth overall—of reaching the NCAA Championship. They’re not unfamiliar with being highly ranked in the polls and taking down Power 5 teams.

As the only mid-major to reach the 2021 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships, the Kent State Golden Flashes are geared up to once again play on the biggest stage.

“I talk to them all the time, I say ‘We treat you like a Power 5,'” said Kent State head coach Lisa Strom after a practice round on Thursday at Grayhawk Golf Club. “Our program is based on a national schedule, we’re gearing towards a national championship, we’re not selling ourselves short by any means. We have the resources and the support from everybody at home to do that. And that’s how we treat our players and our program. We do things first class all the way.”

Kent State is one of 24 teams in Scottsdale for the first of three straight NCAAs at Grayhawk. The Golden Flashes punched their ticket after finishing in a tie for fifth in the Columbus regional, which was played on the Scarlet Course at Ohio State. It didn’t take long after that for it to sink in that they were headed back to the national championship.

“Finishing up in the Columbus regional, I’ll say it hit us,” Strom said. “It didn’t surprise us but I think it firmly established the spot we’re in, and I think that’s huge for their confidence.

“We’ve worked hard. We’re up in northeastern Ohio and we’re kind of a little forgotten spot but it’s college golf and we have to earn everything. I tell them that all the time, I say ‘No one’s going to hand them anything.'”

“We’re here. We’re just as good as anybody else,” said Emily Price, a junior who transferred from South Carolina. “Winning the tournaments we have, winning the conference 22 times in a row, then getting through regionals and beating some other good teams, I think we deserve the spot we’re in.”

Kent State will start alongside Texas and Maryland on the first tee Friday. With a 6:30 a.m. (Arizona) tee time. Even that doesn’t faze this squad.

“Oh, I love it. This heat? Get me out early,” Price said. “I’ve been waking up a little bit earlier than usual anyway so it’s nothing. Get me up before it’s too hot. I’m good with that.”

Strom agreed and noted the time change works in their favor, too.

“The 6:30 tee time, we gotta be ready to go,” she said. “Traveling from the East Coast helps. But for us, the first thing I thought of is, ‘Wow, our players get to hit the first tee shots of the national championship.'”

It’s been since 1992 when San Jose State won that a non-Power 5 program took home the NCAA title.

This Kent State squad might be the next.

“We’re on a good run,” Strom said. “It’s how they take care of their business, how they handle themselves, they do it in a very professional way. They work hard and they deserve all that credit that they’ve got yet.

“But we’re not done yet. They’re hungry for it.”

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These are the 30 teams and six individuals heading to NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship

22 of the top-30 teams in the nation have punched their tickets to the national championship.

After three rounds each at six different regional sites across the country, college golf fans now know who will be teeing it up at the NCAA Division I Men’s Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 28-June 2.

A total of 22 of the top 30 teams on the Golfweek/Sagarin Ranking have advanced to the national championship, including 14 of the top 15.

The lowest seed to advance? That’d be Sam Houston State at No. 65. Even more impressive than the Bearkats advancing is the fact that they did it without their star player, William Holcomb, in the final round due to COVID-19 contact tracing.

Check out the full field below (Golfweek/Sagarin ranking in parentheses)

Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings: Men’s team | Men’s individual
College golf blog: The Road to Grayhawk

Teams

Oklahoma (1)

Florida State (2)

Clemson (3)

Oklahoma State (4)

Pepperdine (5)

Texas (6)

North Carolina (7)

Wake Forest (8)

Arizona State (9)

NC State (10)

Illinois (11)

Georgia (12)

Vanderbilt (13)

Texas Tech (15)

Tennessee (18)

Liberty (19)

SMU (20)

Florida (21)

Arkansas (22)

San Francisco (24)

San Diego State (25)

Georgia Tech (26)

Louisville (32)

TCU (37)

UAB (38)

East Tennessee State (45)

Oregon State (48)

Little Rock (54)

San Diego (63)

Sam Houston State (65)

Individuals

Cole Bradley, Purdue

Ryan Hall, South Carolina

Tristan Mandur, Utah

AJ Ott, Colorado State

Tyson Reeder, Arkansas

Michael Sakane, Jacksonville

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These are the 24 teams, 12 individuals heading to NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship

Check out the full field of teams and individuals bound for Grayhawk and the 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship.

From 72 and 24 to 24 and 12.

We know now the teams and individuals who have punched their tickets to the NCAA Division I Women’s Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 21-26.

The postseason started with four regionals comprised of 72 teams and 24 individuals and has been whittled to 24 and 12. Arizona State, the host institution, has made it through. The Sun Devils are one of six Pac-12 programs to make the finals. The SEC did the Pac-12 one better, sending seven teams to Scottsdale. Duke, who won the title in 2019, returns as the defending champion. South Carolina, the top-ranked team by Golfweek/Sagarin, got in only after eliminating Arkansas in a playoff.

Teams

Golfweek/Sagarin ranking in parentheses

South Carolina (1)

Wake Forest (2)

Duke (3)

LSU (4)

Ole Miss (5)

USC (6)

Oklahoma State (7)

Stanford (8)

Baylor (9)

Florida State (10)

Arizona State (11)

Auburn (12)

Kent State (13)

Virginia Tech (16)

Michigan (17)

Texas (18)

Oregon (19)

Maryland (20)

Arizona (25)

Georgia (21)

UCLA (25)

Alabama (29)

Michigan State (31)

Kentucky (32)

Individuals

Hanna Alberto, Sam Houston State

Kajsa Arwefjall, San Jose State

Mikayla Bardwell, Tennessee

Christin Eisenbeiss, North Florida

Karen Fredgaard, Houston

Nataliya Guseva, Miami

Lauren Hartlage, Louisville

Beth Lillie, Virginia

Celina Sattelkau, Vanderbilt

Brigitte Thibault, Fresno State

Louise Yu, Vanderbilt

Anna Zanusso, Denver

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Scottsdale, Grayhawk three weeks away from long awaited NCAA Championships

Arizona State golf coach Matt Thurmond said Scottsdale will be the “center of the collegiate golf universe”, at least for the short term.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The long awaited start of a three-year run for the NCAA golf Championships in Arizona is now just three weeks away.

The women are up first at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale from May 21-26 followed by the men from May 28-June 2. The 2022 and 2023 nationals also will be held at Grayhawk, which was to have hosted for the first time in 2020 before all spring NCAA championships were canceled due to the pandemic.

So a process that began in 2017, not long after Matt Thurmond was hired as Arizona State men’s golf coach, finally culminates in what Thurmond said will result in Scottsdale becoming the “center of the collegiate golf universe” at least for the short term.

Staging the championships is a combined effort by Grayhawk, ASU, NCAA, Golf Channel and the Thunderbirds to annually host 24 women’s and 30 men’s teams in stroke and match play for a combined total of 54 days (including practice rounds) over three years.

“We’re the tail end of a very big dog,” Del Cochran, Grayhawk general manager, said Thursday. “When we started this journey, we had no idea how it was going to go. We wondered how everyone would blend together, and it’s been absolutely seamless. We will all be proud of the product.”

Spectators will be allowed—with free admission thanks to a sponsorship—although how many and COVID protocol details have yet to be announced.

For the party to be at its peak requires the ASU teams to advance through NCAA regionals.

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The women must finish in the top six at a regional May 10-12 in Columbus, Ohio. The men will learn which of six May 17-19 regionals they will be assigned to on Wednesday, May 4, and then need a top-five finish to advance.

“It’s a little bit of pressure and motivation,” ASU women’s coach Missy Farr-Kaye said. “I’m just trying to keep them positive, and they are. I’m happy to go to Ohio State (for regional) because the Scarlet course is one of the best in the country. It could be 70 (degrees) one day and it could be 40 the next. I don’t think that will phase our group at all. It’s a separator course, you’re not going to be able to get away with anything and that’s what I want.”

The ASU women were third at Pac-12 Championships behind and host Stanford but played without four-time All-America Olivia Mehaffey due to COVID protocol. Mehaffey will be back for the postseason after first trying to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open on Tuesday in Pittsburgh.

ASU’s Linn Grant is ranked No. 4 in Golfweek/Sagarin individual rankings, Ashley Menne 91, Alessandra Fanali 103 and Mehaffey 104. Amanda Linner broke through to finish ninth at Pac-12 Championships.

“Even if Olivia didn’t play last week, we know she’s always ready to go,” said Grant, a sophomore from Sweden. “Without her, we did a good job as a team and kept it together. Fortunately coach Michelle (Estill) and coach Missy have been to Columbus and know the course. Even a score on par will be good. I think that’s to our advantage. Even our fifth player is a really good player.”

The ASU men duked it out with Arizona at the Pac-12 Championships, ending Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California. Arizona won by four strokes and it is tantalizing to image a match-play pairing of the in-state rivals during nationals.

Chun An Yu and Ryggs Johnston tied for fourth individually at the Pac-12 meet and David Puig tied for eighth, a big three if you will that seems to be peaking at the right time.

“The competition is better than ever with all these seniors coming back,” Thurmond said. “Our team is excellent, and we’re getting beat by some teams. The Arizona team that beat us has five seniors. Oklahoma is No. 1 right now, they’re loaded. It’s going to be a great competition (nationals). We’ve got to get here first, but we can handle the pressure and we’ll find a way to get here.”

Johnston said, “We’ve been trending upward lately. We haven’t really brought our best to any tournament yet so in a way I guess that be a good sign. We go (to regional) knowing our best is yet to come hopefully. That’s something to look forward to.”

The ASU teams have something of a home course advantage at Grayhawk given multiple opportunities to play the Raptor course, but more than 30 other men’s and women’s teams also have come to town for a test run on the desert course.

“Oregon and Oklahoma State won national championships when they hosted, but those were all places where nobody was allowed to go play it,” Thurmond said. “ASU to our credit pushed very aggressively to allow anyone and everyone to come play here, which in the past it was the opposite. The host team wouldn’t allow anyone near the course.

“So we gave away a lot of advantage, but we thought it was the best thing for the championship. All these teams have flown in, played a few rounds. They go back and prepare for it. It just adds to the energy around the event.”

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Arizona State, Grayhawk Golf Club to host NCAA men’s, women’s championships in 2023

On Wednesday the NCAA announced Arizona State and Grayhawk Golf Club as hosts of the 2023 men’s and women’s golf championships.

On Wednesday the NCAA announced Phoenix as the host of the 2026 Women’s Final Four, with Arizona State serving as the host school.

The NCAA also announced the Sun Devils as hosts of the 2023 NCAA men’s and women’s golf championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, replacing the 2020 nationals scheduled there that were cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Grayhawk was previously scheduled to host golf’s national championship for both genders from 2020-2022.

Additionally, the NCAA awarded two regional golf championships to metro Phoenix. In 2025 a women’s golf regional will be held at Superstition Mountain Golf Club in Gold Canyon and in 2026 Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa will play host to a men’s golf regional.

The 2021 women’s national championship will be held May 21-26, with the men May 28-June 2. In 2022, the women’s national championship will be held May 20-25, with the men’s May 27-June 1. Dates for 2023 have not yet been decided.

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NCAAs were supposed to be going on right now, but Arizona State, Grayhawk must look ahead to next season

The highly ranked ASU teams as well as host Grayhawk must wait another year for the NCAAs because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In a best case scenario for Arizona State, the women’s golf team would have been playing for a ninth NCAA championship on Wednesday at Grayhawk Golf Club with the men’s team on deck for a chance at its third national title starting Friday.

Instead, the ASU teams and Grayhawk must wait another year because of the coronavirus pandemic for the NCAA Championships to make their debut in Scottsdale in what was to have been a three-year run.

The 2021 and 2022 men’s and women’s nationals still will be played on Grayhawk’s Raptor course and ASU is bidding for 2023 to replace 2020. The NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments have been held at the same site since 2015, but Grayhawk will be the first site to host in consecutive years with a three-year award made in June 2017.

“We had a short timeline to get ready,” said Gregg Tryhus, Grayhawk managing partner. “The team here has done an incredible job, the community has stepped up, the Thunderbirds were ready to go, ASU was fully engaged. We were ready to pull it off. It would have been as could as you could do in that window of time. Now that we have another 12 months, we’re going to be ready for next year.”

Sun Devils were in good position

The ASU teams were poised to contend when the season ended March 12 with the NCAA cancelling winter and spring championships. The Sun Devil women were ranked No. 3 nationally and the men No. 6 by Golfstat, with both coaches believing the best was yet to come.

“We had just won in Mexico with our younger guys and Blake (Wagoner),” ASU men’s coach Matt Thurmond said. “We had this feeling within the team we’re really trending in the right direction, which we always knew we would. Our goal was to be at our best today, and we were on our way.”

ASU women’s coach Missy Farr-Kaye said, “We really hadn’t really clicked yet, but you want to peak at the end. You don’t need to be No. 1 in January. You need to be No. 1 today.”

Key seniors returning

To that end, both teams are welcoming back senior stars who otherwise would have been finishing their college careers this year. The NCAA is allowing spring sport seniors whose season was cut short to return if they wish.

Thurmond announced on Wednesday that Chun An Yu, already a two-time U.S. Open qualifier and third individually at the 2019 NCAA Championships, will join Wagoner as returning seniors.

Arizona State Chun An Yu — Arizona State’s Chun An Yu.

“Kevin (Yu) had been prepared to turn pro,” Thurmond said. “He’d gotten a good feel of where he stacked up. Basically he would have been the equivalent of a first or second overall draft pick coming out of college golf.

Mehaffey also was waiting to see if she would have a chance to qualify for the LPGA Tour, which cancelled its Q-school on May 20.

“She was ready to graduate and finish school,” Farr-Kaye said. “She’s trying to figure out whether she wants to do graduate level classes or start a minor (degree).

“Hopefully she’ll get to play in the ANA (Inspiration, an LPGA major tournament postponed until Sept. 10-13). We want her to be ready to go to Q-school in 2021 and be ready to be the rock star she is. We want her coming back to be very positive for her. She’s the leader, it’s very natural for her, and it’s really been her team for two years.”

New recruits on the way in

Both teams are adding elite talent — Jeewon Park for the men, Ashley Menne out of Xavier Prep for the women — that will add fuel to the daunting prospect of a national-title sweep, something the Sun Devils managed in 1990.

The ASU women won their eight national title in 2017, when Monica Vaughn also was the individual champion. The Sun Devil men are in pursuit of their first team title since 1996 and third overall.

“I believe we have the most talented team in college golf right now,” rising senior Mason Andersen said of the men before knowing Yu was returning. “I think our team is so deep we could travel with the B team and they would probably compete just fine. That’s what breeds competition within our team. It’s really tough to get in the top five and if you get in, you’d better make sure you play well because somebody might take your spot.”

There will be a home course familiarity advantage at Grayhawk, provided the Sun Devils make it through sectionals to nationals, and with the Arizona heat.

Andersen of Chandler already knows the Raptor course well.

“If you want to go out there and study the course then there shouldn’t be any surprises by the time nationals roll around,” he said. “You should know that course like the back of your hand. It’s a tricky course, a lot of elevated greens and slopes you might not see the first time around. It’s something we need to take advantage of.”

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