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Baddeley grabs lead; Woods shoots 69 as Open rolls on at Oakmont

Associated Press

Saturday, June 16, 2007

OAKMONT, Pa. -- Aaron Baddeley dug his feet in the sand and trained his eyes on a golf ball buried in thick grass at the base of a bunker. He was staring at a third straight bogey Saturday at the U.S. Open, each one dropping him closer to Tiger Woods. He choked up on the wedge, his fingers almost touching the steel shaft, and somehow punched it onto the fringe of the 17th green to escape with par and pass his first big test at Oakmont. "That was key," Baddeley said. "That really felt l ...

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