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Days after making an impressive return to pro baseball following a five-year absence, Roger Clemens, 50, shows he has what it takes on the links, as well.
A baseball comeback isn?t enough for the Rocket. He?s trying to reach new heights on the golf course as well.
Just two days after he toed the rubber for the Sugar Land (Tex.) Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League on Saturday ? the first time he has pitched in five years ? Roger Clemens hit the links at the GOLF.com World Amateur Handicap Championship in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Monday.
After 3,100 players battled over four rounds in four days, Clemens, competing in his second World Am, has advanced to Friday?s Championship Playoff round.
Advancing to the playoff are 68 individual flight winners plus ties. Clemens and Mike Williams of Clanton, Ala. finished tied atop the Flight 18 leaderboard. The final round will be played at TPC Myrtle Beach.
?Roger Clemens certainly brings tremendous excitement to our championship playoff in this year?s World Am,? tournament director Jeff Monday said in a statement. ?His great play culminates a wonderful week of golf and camaraderie here in Myrtle Beach.?
Clemens, 50, will return his focus to baseball after the tournament. The seven-time Cy Young award winner is reportedly set to pitch again for the Skeeters on Sept. 7 against the Long Island Ducks.
Clemens pitched 3.1 scoreless innings for Sugar Land on Saturday, allowing just one hit, with his fastball topping out at 88 miles per hour. Clemens is thought to be eying a return to the majors, with Houston Astros owner Jim Crane leaving the door open on a possible contract.
A big league appearance would delay Clemens? Hall of Fame eligibility five years, giving him ample time to rehab his image after spending the last several years contesting allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs. He was acquitted of six felony charges in June stemming from accusations that he lied to Congress in 2008 when he denied using steroids and human growth hormone.
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