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Tiger Woods streaks even with Ben Hogan with win at Bay Hill
Published 3/17/2008 at Dot Wong
A long putt for birdie on 18 secured the Arnold Palmer Invitational title for Tiger Woods, cementing his fifth straight PGA Tour win. The title, Woods’ 64th, tied him with Ben Hogan on the tour’s career list. The 25-footer pushed Woods ahead of challenger Bart Bryant and led to a celebration, which included Woods backpedaling as the ball closed on the hole, followed by him throwing his hat down and letting out a roar. “I was like, ‘How in the hell did he get my hat?’” Woods said after caddie Steve Williams handed him ...

Sunday Streakers: Tiger, Rockets Keep On Rolling
Published 3/17/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... . Well, actually, she’s not half-bad.) Um, anyway, both Tiger Woods and the Houston Rockets saw their winning streaks stay alive over the weekend. The golf-artist-formerly-known-as-Eldrick notched his fifth-straight PGA Tour victory with a dramatic one-stroke win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. Woods has yet to lose a PGA tournament in 2008, and the talk of a possible perfect season is turning a little more serious. Meanwhile, Rafer Alston knocked down 31 points, and Shane Battier stuck to Kobe Bryant like glue, as the Rockets ...

St Patrick's Day Blogsphere
Published 3/17/2008 by Sturminator at Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville
The only blog with the courage to post a Monday blog without any NCAA links. Make sure you send me your brackets, by the way. I am dying to know who you have coming out of the West…. Tiger steals the Show ….Again! There have been five winning streaks of at least five tournaments in PGA Tour history. Woods owns three of them, with the others belonging to Hogan (6) and Byron Nelson, whose 11 in a row is considered among the most untouchable records in all of sports. Woods won Bay Hill for the fifth time, becoming the ...

TIGER WOODS ISN'T NOT BAD AT LOSING
Published 3/17/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip to brighten this short, dark life
... Tiger Woods is winning tournaments so regularly right now that I've resorted to the rare quadruple-negative just to mix up the headlines a little.  Yesterday Tiger sunk this 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole of the tournament to edge out legendary Alabama football coach Bart Bryant and win the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.  He has won all five PGA Tour events so far this season. ...