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Article: PGA CHAMPIONSHIP; Driving problems are worse off course; Sean O'Hair's fine season was interrupted when he was injured in an accident, but switching cars, and swing coaches, helped.(SPORTS)(PATRICK REUSSE)
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- August 8, 2008
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Byline: PATRICK REUSSE; STAFF WRITER
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MICH. - Anthony Kim was asked about a label he has been receiving from the golf media during his second professional season:
Best American Under 30.
"There are other good players out here -- like Sean O'Hair is playing great," Kim said Wednesday.
On Thursday, O'Hair, 26, lived up to Kim's billing with a 1-under 69 that made him the best of under-30 Americans in the first round of the PGA Championship. He was in a group of four with Sergio Garcia and tour veterans Billy Mayfair and Ken Duke at 1 under.
And they were only one shot removed from the co-leaders at 2-under 68: Sweden's Robert Karlsson ...