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This week the two greatest golfers in the world, David Duval, 27, and Tiger Woods, 23, will play in the Masters, the greatest of golf tournaments. It offers the tantalizing possibility of a head-to-head shoot-out between two of the game's rocket launchers, and the kind of Jack Nicklaus vs. Arnold Palmer face-off that can make golf absolutely riveting television. Alas, there are eight dozen more golfers in the field. Let's hope they...
...know Tiger, of course. When he won his green jacket in '97--crushing the course and the competition with a 12-stroke margin of victory--he set off a golf boomlet. But this year Woods comes careering through the gates with dented fenders and wheels coming off. Tiger's been losing his temper and his putting stroke. He shed his agent, and he bagged his caddy, the cuddly Fluff Cowan. He does have one Tour win this season and a number of high finishes. By human standards, he's playing well...
...well enough to handle Duval, a quiet man given the nickname "Rock" who rolls into Augusta, Ga., having recently won a minor major, The Players Championship, against a tougher field than he'll face at Augusta. That victory punctuated an altogether astonishing 18-month run of golf. Late in the season of Tigermania, Duval won his first-ever PGA tournament. He won the next week too, and then the next. "We knew [that] once David got going, he'd win a bunch," Davis Love III said last week. "But we never expected a roll like this. You wonder where...
...hundreds of soldiers surrounded by military equipment in a clearing about 50 yards away. He said he was as surprised as I was to be in this chaotic situation. He had got the call from the President just as he was heading out the door for a golf outing. I'll never forget it: here was the guy in charge--a key player in a historic drama--bothering to take the time to chat, to see how I was doing. Before he finished this, the first of several visits, he shared a quote from Mark Twain with me: "Courage...
...round, by the way. It's not a game of golf. Just so you can keep it real on the golf...