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Buick Invitational – 2008

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Woods wins by 8 at Torrey Pines

Photo - Tiger Woods SAN DIEGO (AP) -Tiger Woods joined some elite company Sunday, even though he might as well have been playing alone. He thrilled the four-deep gallery with an improbable flop shot from the muck of trampled grass behind the ninth green to save par. He sent Torrey Pines into delirium with a 60-foot birdie putt that started in one direction and slid into the cup from the other. He made three straight bogeys on the back nine, a rarity for him when he's in the lead. And none of it mattered. The outcome... Read more

Tournament Notebook

Round 4 Notes

FINAL-Round Notes – Sunday, January 26, 2008 Tiger Woods wins the Buick Invitational for the sixth time at Torrey Pines Golf Club. It is also the sixth time a player has won the same tournament six or more times, but only four players have collected these victories on the same course. Players who have won a single event six times on the same course Alex Ross won the North & South Open six times at Pinehurst (1902, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1915) Jack Nicklaus won the Master Tournament... Read more

Man About Golf

Drug policy gives players a wake-up call

SAN DIEGO (AP) -Torrey Pines turned out to be a real wake-up call. Some players were overwhelmed, nervous, even a little scared. Others were frustrated. Most of them were deeply concerned about the future of golf, perhaps not grasping the magnitude of what lies ahead. And that was before Tiger Woods teed off. In morning and afternoon sessions last week at the Buick Invitational, more than 100 players filed into a white tent for a mandatory meeting on the PGA Tour's new anti-doping policy. Drug... Read more

Other Tours

Dunlap closes with 71, wins by one

Photo - Scott Dunlap PANAMA CITY, Panama – Scott Dunlap emerged from a packed leaderboard lateSunday in Central America to win the Panama Movistar Championship, theopening tournament on the 2008 Nationwide Tour schedule. Dunlap’sfinal-round, 1-over-par 71 was good enough to better the field at thedifficult Panama Golf Club, where only four players bested par for theweek. Dunlap’s 3-under 277 total was one stroke better than Jeff Klauk (69)and third-round leader Arjun... Read more

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