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Garcia Clinches Players Championship Win

By Jamie Buss, Newser Staff

Posted May 11, 2008 9:25 PM CDT

(Newser) – Sergio Garcia ended the longest victory drought of his career today by making a clutch par putt to force a playoff, and then adding another par on the TPC Sawgrass' notorious island green 17th hole to defeat Paul Goydos in The Players Championship. Goydos, playing... Read full story »

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