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Perseverance paying off for Michael Russell

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Friday, August 17, 2007

Playing golf for the first time in four years, Michael Russell is spraying his 3-wood all over the Horseshoe Bay Resort course just west of Austin, Texas. It's a best-ball competition with Andy Roddick -- who is finding most of the fairways with 300-yard drives -- and two buddies on a drizzly day in mid-July. Somehow, Russell is in position to win the match with a 5-foot putt for par on the 18th hole. But he misses, barely, to the left, and must pay off the lost wager. "I owe him an hour of my t ...

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