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Mon 09 Sep 2006Casey ace trumps afternoon of heroics
Saturday afternoon foursomes: Philip Reid on a four-iron shot that reverberated around Straffan and will echo in Ryder Cup lore.
As Paul Casey bent down to push a tee peg into the ground for a seventh time on Saturday afternoon, little did he realise it would be the penultimate action of his day's work. His ultimate action, some 40 seconds later, was to gloriously swing his four-iron at the ball and then watch as it flew just short of 210 yards toward the flag on the 14th green and roll the last few feet into the tin cup for a hole-in-one.
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