You make some super points. There is no team to carry you, or fail you. Stricker decided to show up, and John Daly on the other hand is a slow motion wreck... Daly drops out of half the tourneys he enters all of a sudden...
(Tiger down 2, Mickelson down 5 to surprising leader Troy Matteson)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tiger Woods delivered the score he expected in his 2008 debut, just not the game.
Despite playing from the sand, rough and behind a few trees early in his round, Woods began a much-anticipated season Thursday with a 5-under 67 on the tougher South Course at Torrey Pines. That left him two shots behind Troy Matteson, and gave him a strong presence on the leaderboard as he goes for his fourth straight title in the Buick Invitational. ....
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