Wednesday, January 23, 2008

MICKELSON AND WOODS PLAY IN THIS
WEEK'S BUICK INVITATIONAL

Phil Mickelson will compete in this week's Buick Invitational, despite spending the last three days in bed because of a respiratory problem.
The world No. 2 has struggled with shortness of breath and fatigue since October and was told by his doctor on Monday to rest for two days.
But Mickelson, 37, said he is "feeling much, much better," and is fit to play.
The event will also be Tiger Woods' first of 2008, as he aims to win the title for the fourth successive year.
World No. 1 Woods has won the tournament four times and heads to the Californian course less than two weeks after Golf Channel commentator Kelly Tilghman caused a storm by joking that Tiger's rivals should "lynch him in a back alley" to curb his domination of the sport.
Woods has since said he has forgiven Tilghman, who was suspended by her employers for two weeks for making the remark.
"It was unfortunate. Kelly and I did speak. There was no ill intent. She regrets saying it," said Woods. "In my eyes, it's all said and done."
Mickelson, a three-times winner at Torrey Pines Golf Course, is scheduled to have a practice session with his swing coach Butch Harmon after today's pro-am competition.
"I'm happy about that and looking forward to working with Butch to make sure everything's in order for this week," he said.
Of his condition, Mickelson's manager T.R. Reinman said: "It's unclear whether it was caused by working in the smokey debris on his property following the wildfires that devastated Mickelson's neighbourhood in California or the illness he developed immediately after that in Singapore."
"He managed to win the HSBC Champions the following week in Shanghai but has not felt 100% since then."
Mickelson, who won the Buick Invitational in 1993, 2000 and 2001, has not played tournament golf since clinching the HSBC Champions in a three-way play-off two months ago.

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