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Thu 05 May 2007Rain and wind won't deter bestGOLF:Oh, dear. Money can't guarantee everything, as those spectators smothered in raingear and cowered under umbrellas discovered on the eve of The Players yesterday.While the spectacular, multi-million dollar project to construct a new Mediterranean Revival (if you don't mind) clubhouse and to install vacuums underneath the 18 rebuilt greens and fairways - to make the course play hard and fast - has been completed since Stephen Ames won here last year, the weather gods have contrived to spoil things by bringing grey, rain-laden clouds to this new date in summer.