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Buick champ might have local ties

By John Antonini
GolfDigest.com

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

More players with local ties seem to win the Buick Invitational than any other event. Tiger Woods (four victories, including two in a row) gets most of the ink, but other golfers with Southern California locations on their résumés to have won at Torrey Pines include Phil Mickelson (three times), Steve Pate (twice), Scott Simpson, Craig Stadler and Mark O'Meara in recent times, as well as Gene Littler and Billy Casper in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps locals get the lucky bounces at ...

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