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- Hawaiian Teen Starts Nicely in Switzerland
- Remember Hawaiian teenager Tadd Fujikawa? Youngest boy to play in a U.S. Open when he missed the cut at Winged Foot in 2006. Youngest to make the cut in a PGA Tour event at the...
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- Matt Lauer to Tiger: 'Your Whole Body Has Changed'
- Tiger Woods is in New York City today to promote the latest version of his EA Sports video game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008, and to ring The Opening Bell at the New York Stock...
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- Take Your Kid to Work
- Bernhard Langer is 59th in the FedEx Cup points standings, which means he could (and some might say should) be playing in The Barclays at Westchester Country Club today. Instead, he's playing in the...
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- The Invitation Must Be Lost In The Mail
- The FedEx Cup playoffs begin next week, and someone might need to tell John Daly he isn't invited. Unless Daly misspoke while talking with reporters Sunday at Southern Hills, he has no idea how...
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- Do you know who I am?
- Here's hoping British Open champion Padraig Harrington gets his ego properly stroked today at the WGC-Bridgeston Invitational. According to a Reuters story, Harrington's biggest disappointment about his first-round 72 on Thursday came shortly before...
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- A Tadd early?
- OK, we'll give the kid a few more rounds before declaring Tadd Fujikawa's decision to turn pro at age 16 completely ridiculous, but after 18 holes in the Hawaiian's professional debut at the Reno-Tahoe...
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- Bill Walsh loved golf, too
- Golf Digest contributing editor Mark Soltau remembers the time he left during the middle of a Stanford football practice and accompanied Coach Bill Walsh to the nearby Stanford driving range. Walsh, who died Monday...
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- Open Qualifying's Replay Debacle
- The Telegraph's Lewine Mair does a great job of detailing yet another course set-up debacle during qualifying at Sunningdale yesterday for the British Open (July 19-22) at Carnoustie. As Mair writes, The R&A put...
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- Arnie (sort of) Gets it Started
- AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Heavy fog has delayed the start of the 72nd Masters . . . unless you count the ceremonial 205-yard poke from Arnold Palmer that he was bragging about to members in the...
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- Recapping the Par-3 Contest
- AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Rory Sabbatini made five 2s to shoot a five-under-par 22 and win the Par-3 Contest on Wednesday afternoon. Sabbatini's winning score was two shots shy of the tournament record shared by Art...
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- Par-3 Contest Tickets: $700
- AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Ticket scalpers were asking $225 at 7:30 a.m. Monday for a ticket to the first day of practice rounds. The hottest ticket so far, according to the two "salesmen" we approached, is...
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- The Other Side of Tiger
- Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post loves the Tiger she met at his AT&T National press conference: Tiger the new Dad.The fact is, after watching him win 12 major championships over a decade as a...
