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Japan's best paired with Mickelson

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. -- There is a striking liveliness to Shigeki Maruyama that leaps over the barrier of a Japanese-English dictionary. There is his smile, which doesn't spread across his face so much as pounce on every square inch of it. And his energy could solve a blackout or two. As he spoke with the Japanese media at the U.S. Open Friday evening, he stood erect, all 5-feet-7 of him -- but his hands never stopped moving. Maruyama swung his right hand up and down, scraping his fingertips a ...

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