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Harrington wins Player of the Year award; Ballesteros "stable" after brain surgery
Padraig Harrington, winner of this year’s British Open and PGA Championship titles, has become the second European to win the PGA Player of the Year award . Nick Faldo is the other player to earn the honor, in 1990. Tiger Woods came in second in this year’s points standings … ...
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Sergio Garcia shows some grown up class in dedicating win to cancer-stricken countryman Seve Ballesteros
Chris Baldwin — ... But there was Garcia dedicating his victory at the Castello Masters at the course where his dad is the club pro to Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish golf legend in a Madrid hospital fighting brain cancer. ...

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