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Fri 11 Nov 2009Main contenders avoid knock-out blow
GOLF DUBAI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP:THE PUGILIST knows an opening jab sets down a marker, nothing else. There’s no knock-out blow.
Yesterday, on this course handed the grandiose title of The Earth, two men went in search of the world. And, if a blow-in by the name of Robert Allenby finished the day atop the leaderboard in the Dubai World Championship, it was the manoeuvring of Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood in their quests to claim the Order of Merit that kept us enthralled.
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