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02.08.08, 10:00
AKRON, Ohio (AP)—Without the world’s No. 1 player around, Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson brought some star power Friday to the final World Golf Championship of the year.
Singh twice escaped from the trees on his closing holes at Firestone and renewed his affair with a belly putter on his way to a 4-under 66 at the Bridgestone Invitational, putting his name atop the leaderboard for the first time in more than four months.
He was one shot ahead of Mickelson, who made another great escape at the end of the second round, this time holing a 20-foot par putt to finish off a 66 that put him in the final group with Singh.
Both have three majors—two Masters and a PGA for Mickelson, two PGAs and a Masters for Singh—along with some history. They got into a heated argument during a rain delay at Augusta National over the length of Mickelson’s metal spikes. A year later when they played two rounds together in Phoenix, Singh asked that Mickelson’s driver be tested to make sure it was legal.
Singh takes a one-shot lead over Mickelson (http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-bridgestoneinvitational&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Singh twice escaped from the trees on his closing holes at Firestone and renewed his affair with a belly putter on his way to a 4-under 66 at the Bridgestone Invitational, putting his name atop the leaderboard for the first time in more than four months.
He was one shot ahead of Mickelson, who made another great escape at the end of the second round, this time holing a 20-foot par putt to finish off a 66 that put him in the final group with Singh.
Both have three majors—two Masters and a PGA for Mickelson, two PGAs and a Masters for Singh—along with some history. They got into a heated argument during a rain delay at Augusta National over the length of Mickelson’s metal spikes. A year later when they played two rounds together in Phoenix, Singh asked that Mickelson’s driver be tested to make sure it was legal.
Singh takes a one-shot lead over Mickelson (http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-bridgestoneinvitational&prov=ap&type=lgns)