GOLF: COL MISSES THE CREAM
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COLIN MONTGOMERIE let slip a festive cash bonanza after finishing a poor fourth in the Target World Challenge in California. Monty, who started the day two ahead of the field, ended three
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Top seed Tim Henman loses to Ivan Ljubicic in the Madrid Masters.
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You probably remember the hiccup at Southern Hills Country Club in 2001, when he missed an 18-inch putt for bogey, costing him a chance to get into a US Open playoff. It was painful, "embarrassing," and downright heartwrenching, but it wasn't one of those moments that prompted Stewart Cink to apply a headlock and subject himself to ...
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Memories were all that lingered from behind the 18th green at Winged Foot on the morning after a debacle that brought ridicule to Phil Mickelson, a major setback to Colin Montgomerie and a U.S. Open title to Geoff Ogilvy.
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England's David Howell capped his round with an eagle Friday to take a one-stroke lead over compatriot and Ryder Cup teammate Luke Donald after two rounds of the Dunhill Links Championship. Howell and Donald each shot 7-under 65 on the Old Course. Howell's second successive 65 was capped by an eagle-2 on a 105-yard sand wedge into the 18th hole. Donald was a stroke behind at 13-under 131.
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From a distance that couldn't have been more than 30 inches, Niclas Fasth rolled his putt toward the hole, only to see it catch the lip and spin out. Undaunted, he tried a second time. Again, it lipped out. The third time was hardly better; he missed the hole entirely.
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Colin Montgomerie, who sank the winning Ryder Cup putt last weekend, returned to the European Tour with a bump with only a late flourish keeping him in contention on the first day of The Heritage tournament.
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Only three players have ever beaten Ernie Els in matchplay over the West Course. Bernhard Langer accounted for Vijay Singh with a classic upset of the world No 1, but Padraig Harrington
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Five days after making the putt that won the Ryder Cup, Colin Montgomerie looked set to miss the cut at a European PGA tour event.
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Masters champion Zach Johnson hoped to jump into contention at the John Deere Classic on Friday. Instead, he missed the cut.
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Ryder Cup star Colin Montgomerie had a birdie and eagle on the last two holes Thursday, shooting a 1-under-par 71 that left him four strokes behind the leaders after the first round of The Heritage.
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland  - Ernie Els played down  Wednesday suggestions that this week's Dunhill Links  Championship is just a continuation of his battle for the world  number one spot with Vijay Singh.
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Wet, windy weather would generally be seen as unsuitable golfing weather. Not so in Scotland.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - British world number four  Tim Henman was knocked out of the quarterfinals of the $1.26  million Swiss Indoors tournament Friday, falling 7-6, 7-5 to  unseeded Czech Jiri Novak.
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That was the question during the first round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club on Thursday afternoon. The answer is: Not at the top of the leaderboard.
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For the second time in three months, Stuart Appleby was the golfer to beat. And at the AT&T National yesterday, just like at the Masters, he failed to capitalize.
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This is no time for Colin Montgomerie to get excited about Carnoustie. He already has suffered enough. The sometimes burly, often surly Scot should be positively chuffed with the British Open only a week away. Having gone 18 months without a trophy that belonged only to him, Montgomerie ended one of the longest dry spells of his career when his 6-iron somehow stayed out of the water on the 18th hole and he won the European Open by one shot.