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Walmart First Tee Open: Final-round notebook

31st August 2008

Walmart First Tee Open: Final-round notebook

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jeff Sluman won for the second time this year (Bank of America Championship) and claimed his second career title on the Champions Tour. He became the eighth player to register a pair of victories on the Champions Tour this year, joining Bernhard Langer, Scott Hoch, Denis Watson, Tom Watson, Fred Funk, Jay Haas and Eduardo Romero.

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31st August 2008

Dodgers batter Webb, gain ground in West (AP)

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe ducks to avoid being hit by the broken bat of Arizona Diamondbacks' Tony Clark in the fifth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, in Phoenix.

Andre Ethier and Casey Blake hit first-inning homers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers roughed up Brandon Webb and Arizona 8-1 on Sunday, climbing within 2 1/2 games of the Diamondbacks in the NL West. Derek Lowe (11-11) tossed six shutout innings as the Dodgers took two of three games from Arizona after entering the series having lost seven straight.

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31st August 2008

Sluman shoots 5-under 67 to capture First Tee Open

Jeff Sluman won the First Tee Open for his second Champions Tour victory, closing with a 5-under 67 at Pebble Beach on Sunday for a five-stroke victory over Fuzzy Zoeller and Craig Stadler.

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31st August 2008

Sixteen years later, Sluman earns redemption at Pebble Beach

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jeff Sluman followed in the steps of last year’s Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach winner Gil Morgan and got his revenge on Pebble Beach Golf Links.

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31st August 2008

Notes: Highlights from the week at Pebble Beach

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — On Tuesday before the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, John Cook tried his luck on Cypress Point Club, the private, mystical course designed by Alister MacKenzie in 1928.

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31st August 2008

DIY – How to Make a Golf Ball Pool Table!

If you are a golf fanatic like me, you will not only go to the driving range daily, you will need to build yourself one of these cool Golf Ball Pool Tables which is basically a Pool Table with Golf Balls instead of the standard-size

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31st August 2008

Weir grabs golf lead as Villegas, Els, Singh, Garcia join title hunt (AFP)

Canada's Mike Weir birdied the 18th hole to grab a one-stroke lead over Colombia's Camilo Villegas on Sunday after the third round of the seven million-dollar Deutsche Bank Championship.

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31st August 2008

Federer, Roddick advance at US Open (AP)

Marin Cilic, of Croatia, returns to Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008.

As if trying to remind himself and everyone else where he’s been and where he’s quite certain he’ll return, Roger Federer thrust his right fist overhead and pointed skyward with his index finger. The universal gesture for No. 1. As Federer made that signal, the 1970s song “Still the One” by Orleans rang out through Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday, marking the end of the four-time defending champion’s…

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31st August 2008

Sluman captures second victory of season at Walmart First Tee Open

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31st August 2008

Sluman shoots 5-under 67 to win First Tee Open (AP)

Tom Kite hits out of a sand trap on the seventh hole during the final round of the Boeing Classic golf tournament in Snoqualmie, Wash. on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. Kite won with 14-under par.

Jeff Sluman won the First Tee Open for his second Champions Tour victory, closing with a 5-under 67 at Pebble Beach on Sunday for a five-stroke victory over Fuzzy Zoeller and Craig Stadler. Sluman, a six-time PGA Tour winner who won the Bank of America Championship in June for his first Champions Tour title, had a 14-under 202 total.

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