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**truebluefan** · 03-15-2008, 07:54 PM

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Inside the mind of a hot golfer is a whole lot of nothing.

"You can't think about what you are shooting. You can't think about what you want to shoot. You can't think about anything but the next shot," Sean O'Hair said. "You are literally going one shot at a time and just allowing it to happen rather than trying to make something happen."

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**truebluefan** · 03-16-2008, 11:17 PM

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Tiger Woods made a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard by one shot, extending his PGA TOUR winning streak to five and keeping intact a perfect season in golf.

In his biggest challenge since this streak began seven months ago, Woods outlasted 45-year-old Bart Bryant and won with a birdie putt on the final hole for the first time in seven years. He turned and slammed his cap to the ground, letting out a roar to celebrate his 64th career victory, tying Ben Hogan at No. 3 on the PGA TOUR's career list.

Palmer stood behind the 18th green with thousands of sun-baked fans who have come to expect nothing less from Woods. The King smiled and nodded his head, a royal approval of a captivating conclusion at Bay Hill.

Woods closed with a 6-under 66 and won Bay Hill for the fifth time in his career, becoming the first player in PGA TOUR history to win four tournaments at least five times.

Next up is the World Golf Championships-CA Championship at Doral, which he has won six times. No wonder some are starting to question whether he will lose again.

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**truebluefan** · 03-16-2008, 11:19 PM

Possessing a firm grasp of golf's historical record, Eldrick Tiger Woods was surprisingly succinct in his assessment of one of golf's most iconic figures: William Ben Hogan.

"He could hit it pretty decently," a grinning Woods said of the man he caught Sunday with the 64th win of his career, third all-time, at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.

That's it?

"Yeah," Woods said, still smiling. "What more is there? I mean, isn't that what you think of first with Hogan?"

He's right. It is.

But without a doubt there is so much more to the Hogan mystique: the struggles early in his career that twice sent him back home to Texas, the near-fatal automobile accident that prevented him from competing regularly after 1950, his legendary devotion to and affection for practice, which abetted his intensely private inclinations.

Above all, though, Hogan -- sinewy strong though only 5-foor-9, which earned him the nickname, "Bantam Ben" -- really could hit the ball. He was the steward of the so-called "secret," which he dug out of the dirt with manic commitment. His reward for countless hours of toil was 64 PGA TOUR titles and nine major championships.

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