GOLF: Woods-Mickelson not dream team
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Tiger Woods paired with Phil Mickelson. A dream team in golf gloves. Together, they would lead the charge at the Ryder Cup, carry the United States into an early lead, discourage the Europeans, ignite the home crowd.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - Tiger Woods and Phil  Mickelson had been dubbed by their Ryder Cup captain as the  dream pairing but they gave Hal Sutton nothing but a king-sized  headache Friday.
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HAL SUTTON is a poker fan, Bernhard Langer doesnât gamble but both declared satisfaction with their opening hands in Michigan. But the Americanâs decision to pair Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the
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Morning four-ball Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk def. Padraig Harrington and Colin Montgomerie , 1 up Down a hole through seven, Woods got the US even with a 5-foot birdie at the 173-yard eighth. Furyk birdied the ninth, then Woods made them back to back at the 11th and 12th to go 3 up. Birdies at the 14th and 16th ...
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The winners of this year's first three golf majors are paired together in today's opening round of the PGA Championship, golf's final major of 2006. Masters winner and defending PGA champion Phil Mickelson joins U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvy and British Open champ Tiger Woods as they tee off at 9:30 a.m. EDT from the tenth tee at Medinah Country Club. They will also be paired together on Friday.
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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were paired for the first time in Friday's opening match of the Ryder Cup, a dynamic twosome that hoped to get the United States rolling toward bringing the chalice back to this side of the Atlantic. But they got off to an inglorious start in their better-ball match against Colin Montgomerie and Padraig Harrington of Europe at Oakland Hills.
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Tiger Woods got some separation at the BMW Championship.
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Always rivals, barely friends, finally partners. U.S. captain Hal Sutton made sure this Ryder Cup gets off to a dynamic start by pairing Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson &#151; America's best two players &#151; for the first time in the opening match at Oakland Hills.
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Tiger Woods remembers the encounter. It was epic, a real back-and-forth contest with Phil Mickelson at a big event. They were playing pingpong at the Presidents Cup.
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1. Hal Sutton didn&#39;t lose the Ryder Cup for the US Those who blame him for the whopping loss -- and that includes some nationally known columnists -- either don&#39;t understand golf or match play, aren&#39;t current with today&#39;s players on both tours or are
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For all the fuss over Tiger Woods taking another week off, perhaps the Nissan Open should consider this possibility: It still might have the hottest player in golf at Riviera. True, one victory by Phil Mickelson still leaves him six short of the PGA Tour winning streak Woods is riding. And despite a five-shot victory at Pebble Beach, some perspective is in order.
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Former Europe captain Tony Jacklin says  that "never in a million years" would he have put Tiger Woods  and Phil Mickelson together in a Ryder Cup pairing.
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Tiger Woods is still the No. 1 golfer in the world, just as sure Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead. The difference these days is, Woods is No.
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Phil Mickelson is a changed man. He&#39;s altered the long-standing perception he couldn&#39;t win a major, and his latest deviation finds him switching equipment just before golf&#39;s pre-eminent team event.
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THOUSAND OAKS, United States  - Tiger Woods has one more chance to defeat world number one Vijay Singh this year and this time Woods has a home-course advantage.
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Phil Mickelson isn&#039;t the only major champion to blow the U.S. Open. He can only hope he doesn&#039;t end up like the others.
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Jack Nicklaus figures at least one of his major championship records is safe. Tiger Woods left Oakmont having squandered another chance to win a major while playing in the last group, unable to make but one birdie in the final round of the U.S. Open despite having a short iron for his approach to the green on a half-dozen occasions.