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1/12/01 -- Freezing rain postponed the second round of the Touchstone Energy Tucson Open on Friday.
1/12/01 -- One year ago, Tiger Woods fired a second-round 66 to take a four-shot lead entering weekend play at the Mercedes Championships.
1/11/01 -- Six players share the first-round lead at the Touchstone Energy Tucson Open in Tucson, Ariz.
1/11/01 -- The 2001 season may yet belong to Tiger Woods, but the first round of the Mercedes Championships went to Justin Leonard.
1/10/01 -- For the first of five occasions in 2001, a pair of PGA Tour-sanctioned events will be contested in the same week.
1/7/01 -- Steve Stricker completed an improbable run Sunday at the Metropolitan Golf Club, defeating Sweden’s Pierre Fulke 2-and-1 in the 36-hole final, thus capturing the first official event of the season, as well as the $1-million first-place prize.
1/8/00 -- The much-maligned WGC-Accenture World Match Play Championship this past weekend in Melbourne, Australia, proved to be entertaining, competitive and even informative.
1/6/01 -- No. 21 vs. No. 55, that’s who’ll face-off in the finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
1/5/01 -- Top-seeded Ernie Els survived another tough match to advance into the semi-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play.
1/4/01 -- On a stifling hot day, Justin Leonard and Ernie Els each survived scares, while Vijay Singh was shocked
1/4/01 -- At 240 pounds, Craig Stadler could do without the intense Australian heat.
1/3/01 -- Arriving 18 hours before his Day-1 match, Ernie Els easily advanced into the second round
1/3/01 -- Wednesday’s first-round match between Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker marked an end
12/21/00 -- First of all, let’s just say we are not going to mention ‘his’ name. Legends, lore and epic tales have and will be written about ‘him.’ This is not one of them.
12/16/00 -- The team of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus was just one of the three defending champions to advance into the finals of the Hyundai Team Matches at the Pelican Hills Golf Club in Newport Coast, Calif.
Majors, milestones and memories. Dial M for the 2000 Senior PGA Tour. Okay, so the 2000 Senior season lacked the suspense of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, but there were plenty of highlights, and no one provided more than Larry Nelson.
12/10/00 -- Tiger Woods and David Duval matched expectations this week by convincingly capturing the World Golf Championships-EMC World Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
12/9/00 -- An aggressive tandem of Tiger Woods and David Duval fired a better-ball 12-under-par 60, Saturday at the Buenos Aires Golf Club, to take a three-shot lead at 30-under over New Zealand and the host team, Argentina.
12/8/00 -- Argentina’s Eduardo Romero and Angel Cabrera overcame an ominous start to maintain a share of the lead with New Zealand’s Frank Nobilo and Greg Turner entering the third round of the WGC-EMC World Cup.
12/7/00 -- Eduardo Romero and Angel Cabrera gave the Argentine fans plenty to cheer about Thursday afternoon. The tandem combined to shoot a 15-under-par 57 in the better-ball format to tie New Zealand for the lead after Day 1 of the WGC-EMC World Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
12/6/00 -- Tiger Woods is back to defend his title at the WGC-EMC Wolrd Cup of Golf. This time, he’ll try to conquer Argentina; and he’ll do so with the world’s fourth-ranked player by his side, David Duval.
12/6/00 -- Just days removed from earning his 2001 PGA Tour card, Geoff Ogilvy makes the 16-hour trip back home to Adelaide, Australia for the Ford South Australian Open.
12/3/00 -- Davis Love III fired a blemish-free 8-under-par 64 Sunday to earn a come-from-behind victory over Tiger Woods (69) and Sergio Garcia (73) at the Williams World Challenge, his first win of any kind since the 1998 MCI Classic.
12/2/00 -- Sergio Garcia double-bogeyed the final hole at the Sherwood Country Club, but managed to hang on to a tenuous one-shot lead over tournament host Tiger Woods at the Williams World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif.