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Colt Knost, a Golf Everyman, Makes the Beautiful People Take Notice

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — For a brief moment in the second round of the Players Championship, dumpy and frumpy replaced lean and mean on the PGA Tour.

But do not let the plummeting scores and the potential for a wild weekend distract from the story of Colt Knost.

He is short; he is chubby; he is unshaven. He is not exactly a marketing firm’s dream.

But if not for a blown 4-foot putt on the final hole Friday, Knost, the very definition of the Sunday municipal golfer, would have set the 18-hole record at T.