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Subplots abound as 2008's final major gets set to tee off

By Jason Sobel
ESPN.com

Sunday, August 3, 2008

We commence this special PGA Championship preview edition of the Weekly 18 with a bonus question and a quick history lesson: Will the year's final major ever go back to match play? Nope. Nuh-uh. Fuhgeddaboutit. Fifty years after Dow Finsterwald won the inaugural PGA that was played as a stroke-play event (the first 39 were match-play format), the tourney is firmly entrenched as 72 holes, lowest score take all. As for other questions entering this week's PGA Championship at Oakland Hills, the ...

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