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TOURNAMENT BRINGS INDETERMINATE BOOST

By Caleb Fort

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 5:17 a.m.

Workers assemble a floating Walmart logo before installing it in a water hazard along the 18th fairway Monday while preparing for this week’s LPGA Walmart NW Arkansas Championship at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers.
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By Andy Shupe
 Workers assemble a floating Walmart logo before installing it in a water hazard along the 18th fairway Monday while preparing for this week’s LPGA Walmart NW Arkansas Championship at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers.

The Walmart NW Arkansas Championship golf tournament will bring 144 players, thousands of visitors and an indeterminate amount of money to Northwest Arkansas, organizers and local officials said.

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