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Kix Brooks Gets Teed Off

Verona, NY: Never mind having the #1 Billboard and Radio & Records single
with "Play Something Country," Billboard's #1 album for two weeks in a with
Hillbilly Deluxe, which is getting the best reviews of Brooks & Dunn's storied
career, sometimes a superstar guitarslinger/singer/songwriter gets a little
teed off. Thankfully, when that superstar happens to be Kix Brooks, the
crop-dusting, stage-diving half of 4-time Entertainers of the Year, getting teed off
involves 3-woods, 5-irons and putters rather than tantrums.

Tomorrow -- Sept. 27 -- the Louisiana-born and -raised musician will be
teeing it up in some fast company, joining the legendary Arnold Palmer, long
hitter John Daly and LPGA sensation Natalie Gulbis for a little good natured
competition at Atunyote (ah-dune-yoo) Golf Club at the Turning Stone Resort and
Casino in Verona, New York, 30 miles east of Syracuse.

"You know they've got me coming for my golf game," teases the man who
plays in almost every city his sold-out Deuce's Wild Tour rolls into. "I mean,
come on? John Daly has been waiting to hear my thoughts on the power swing."

The format is fairly straightforward. There are 18 skins -- one per hole
-- up for grabs. Lowest score gets the skin. If there's a tie between two or
more players, no skin gets awarded -- and the skin carries over to the next
hole, making it both nerve wracking and possible for Brooks to walk away the big
winner.

"Well, I'm not counting on anything more than a fun day, playing what
I've been told is a great Tom Fazio golf course with some amazing golfers," says
the man who will co-host the 39th annual Country Music Association Awards,
live from New York City's Madison Square Garden. "To get to play golf with Arnold
Palmer, who I grew up watching on tv, or these white-hot-right-now players
like John Daly and Natalie Gulbis, well, that's a pretty cool thing for a guy
that plays pretty good okay golf, if you know what I mean?"

No word on whether or not Daly might turn up to play some guitar on "Mama
Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing" or "Rock My World Little Country Girl" as
Brooks & Dunn's fall Deuce's Wild Tour -- with Muzik Mafia mavens Big & Rich
and those wild'n'crazy Warren Brothers -- rolls on. But with dates between now
and October 30th, anything could happen.

"We've got our friends in the world of sports," laughs Brooks. "But it's
funny, other than Dale (Earnhardt, who swapstarred in "The Honky Tonk Truth"
video), they pretty much stay in the wings -- and leave the jumping around to
me. Regardless, you just never know who's gonna show up at one of our shows, or
what they'll do? and we like it like that."