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- Knee surgery to keep Mediate from returning to Torrey
- Rocco Mediate, Tiger Woods' antagonist in last year's U.S. Open, was ready to return to the scene of his greatest near miss, Torrey Pines GC, for this week's Buick Invitational. Instead he'll miss the tournament...
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- McDaniel: Earl Woods Would Have Loved This
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The late Earl Woods loved San Diego. "If I were to die and could come back again, this is where I would want to live," he said several years ago, while...
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- Strege: One Amazing Day After Another for Mediate
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The gravity of the U.S. Open is not lost on Rocco Mediate, it just sometimes takes its leave, as he demonstrated late Sunday afternoon, when he playfully needled his playoff opponent....
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- Moriarty: Disappointed Westwood Never Expected This
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- After it was over, Lee Westwood joked he had his eyes shut when he came within inches of joining Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate in Monday's U.S. Open playoff, missing a...
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- Soltau: Singh is Wrong About Brits, Casey Says
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Count Paul Casey among the British golfers who think Vijay Singh was off base earlier this week for asserting that their lack of success in major championships can be attributed to...
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- Strege: Ogilvy Positioned to Win Another Open
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The final round of the U.S. Open can meander in a variety of directions, none of them predictable, which makes prognostication (other than opting for the safest bet, that Tiger Woods...
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- Moriarty: A 9 Extends Mickelson's Open Pain
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- A quadruple-bogey 9 on the 13th hole meant Phil Mickelson's unrequited love affair with the U.S. Open is destined to continue for another year, made all the worse this time because...
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- Johnson: Familiar Failure for Stuart Appleby
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Maybe Stuart Appleby just wanted to get it out of the way early. Holding the lead after 36 holes at Torrey Pines, Appleby wasn't exactly playing to his strength. In fact,...
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- Diaz: Tiger's Back-Nine 30 Looked a Lot Like Pebble
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Tiger Woods tried hard to turn his three-under-par 68 at Torrey Pines on Friday--which included a 30 on his second nine--into nothing special. The phrases were right out of the buzz...
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- Verdi: Mediate is All Smiles in Favorite Event
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- And on the other half of Torrey Pines South, the nine that seemed to be tilting upward from the weight of the tens of hundreds following Tiger and Phil across the...
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- Strege: Co-leader Streelman Still Thriving at Torrey
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Life is good for Kevin Streelman, who was married less than three weeks ago and has extended his honeymoon to encompass a place that from his vantage point is just on...
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- Strege: Which Justin Hicks is Leading the Open?
- LA JOLLA, Calif. -- His might not be a familiar name, but neither is it an uncommon one, apparently. Imagine, for instance, Justin Hicks' surprise Thursday when he glanced outside the ropes and saw Justin...
