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Unmatched: Woods living up to his promise of an improved game.(The Orange County Register)

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| March 05, 2003 | Whicker, Mark | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Mark Whicker

CARLSBAD, Calif. _ When Tiger Woods first disclosed how much pain he'd endured in 2002, some of us came down with rolled eyeballs and tickled ribs.

Hurt? The man won the Masters, the U.S. Open, the World Golf Championships event in Ireland, two other PGA Tour events and finished second at the PGA Championship with birdies on the final four holes.

Hurt? He had the best stroke average on tour, the best Sunday average and hit the most greens in regulation. He still finished '02 as the world's top-ranked player and won the PGA Tour money title for the fourth time in five years.

Obviously this was pure Tigerbole. Obviously this was the same type of amiable blarney that often has Woods citing his "six lipped-out putts" when he really had two, and had father Earl Woods predicting Tiger would enrich the world at large, not just Titleist, Buick and…

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