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Close encounter with a one-of-a-kind player

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Sunday, August 27, 2006

His Tuesday practice round complete, journeyman pro Jeff Hart walked into the Brown Deer Golf Club clubhouse for lunch. That's when he noticed the pairings sheet for his opening two rounds of the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open. Hart found his name, his tee time, then his playing partners. "Uh-oh," Hart said that day. "This is going to be a little different." Different? Try historic. On the afternoon of Aug. 29, 1996, a 20-year-old Tiger Woods, attired in his new Nike clothing ensemble, stepped o ...

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