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Article: Dream trio struggle as unheralded Streelman, Hicks, claim first round lead at US Open
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- June 13, 2008
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The dozen-deep galleries that followed the dream golf trio of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott at Thursday's opening round of the U.S. Open would have been confident they were tracking a first-round leader.
They would have been better off among the relative handful following Kevin Streelman or Justin Hicks. That pair, neither among the top 600 in world rankings, each shot 3-under 68 to take a one-shot lead after the opening day.
They were among 11 players who broke par at Torrey Pines, after only two were in red numbers after the first round last year. The world's Nos. 1, 2 and 3 _ Woods, Mickelson and Scott _ were not among them.
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