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Posted: Tuesday August 31, 1999 05:41 PM

Sports Illustrated's Alan Shipnuck offers his take on what people are talking about this week in the world of golf.

1. Tiger Woods. What can I say that Nike isn't going to say for me?

2. Dottie Pepper. The red-hot golfer bangs in a spicy 35-foot putt at the last hole to win the Oldsmobile Classic. Writers all over the country fight a losing battle to contain play-on-words involving Pepper.

3. Hale Irwin. For the second straight week he loses a playoff to a no-name, this time Jim Ahern at the Canadian Senior Open. Good thing Irwin is getting in some practice at losing -- Tom Watson makes his Senior debut next week.

4. Notah Begay. Tiger's buddy wins the Tour's other tournament this weekend, the $2.75 million Reno-Tahoe Open. Hopefully he won't leave his $495,000 check on the blackjack tables.

5. World Golf Championships. Now this is what Tim Finchem had in mind -- Tiger hoisting a million-dollar check, not Jeff Maggert.

6. Kelli Kuehne. With another strong showing -- second at the LPGA Oldsmobile Classic -- she moves into the top 10 on the money list and clinches the Smile of the Year award.

7. European Ryder Cuppers. They play miserably at the NEC Invitational, with only Sergio Garcia and Padraig Harrington finishing among the top 20. That sound you hear is the Yanks being lulled to sleep.

8. David Berganio. The best golfer ever to come out of South Central L.A. wins the Nike Tour's Permian Basin Open, thus setting the stage for his return to the PGA Tour. He'd make a better TV movie than Dorothy Dandridge.

9. Christophe Angiolin. Jean Van de Velde's nutty caddie finally got himself fired. No word on his future plans, though he oughta be considered for Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther remake.

minus-10. Phil Mickelson. He bogeys 16 and 18 on Sunday in Akron to remain winless on the year. I better not comment.

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