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The Week July 10-16
July 23, 2001
?IchibanJapanese have played on Tour for 35 years, but Shigeki Maruyama is the first to win on the mainland.
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July 23, 2001

The Week July 10-16

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UP and DOWN

Retief Goosen

Tiger Woods

Bruce Lietzke

Bruce Fleisher

Michael Campbell

New Zealand Open

LPGA winter vacation

LPGA spring break

USA Network

Golf Channel

?Ichiban
Japanese have played on Tour for 35 years, but Shigeki Maruyama is the first to win on the mainland.

?Swing Low
Allen Doyle, who honed his swing in his basement, should now enjoy a cellar's market for tips.

?Slow Going
Emilee Klein, the It Girl of 1996 after back-to-back victories, ends a five-year wait for number 3.

?No Way
Six men who are winless in 2001 rank ahead of U.S. and Scottish Open champ Retief Goosen.

? PGA
Maruyama, 31, a nine-time winner on the Japanese tour, beat Charles Howell III with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff in the Greater Milwaukee Open at Brown Deer Park, one of three municipal courses to hold a Tour event this year. Both players shot 18-under 266 in regulation....

Isao Aoki, the only other golfer from Japan to win on Tour, took the '83 Hawaiian Open.

?SENIOR

Doyle's victory in the Ford Senior Players Championship in Dearborn, Mich., was his sixth as a Senior and his second major. He topped Doug Tewell with a par on the first hole of sudden death at the TPC of Michigan....

Hale Irwin's record-tying streak of five straight years with a win in a major (Miller Barber did it from 1981 through '85) ended with his third-place finish in Dearborn.

? LPGA

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