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So much for Robert Allenby taking advantage of a rested Anthony Kim. Playing for the first time since the Presidents Cup -- where Allenby bashed Kim for partying too much and being a loose cannon and compared him to John Daly, even though the American smoked the Australian in the singles matches -- Kim again took Allenby down in Spain.

This time, it was at the Volvo Match Play Championships, and Kim won 5 and 4 on Saturday in the 36-hole semifinals match, giving Kim ownership over Allenby in both matches this season.

How did Kim take down Allenby? Well, just as you'd expect from the confident American.

In a rematch that is sure to disappoint bar owners in Caseras, Spain, Anthony Kim and Robert Allenby are set to square off in the World Match Play Semifinals on Saturday, giving us a much-needed golf treat during the offseason.

As you probably remember, Kim and Allenby played against each other at the Presidents Cup earlier this month during the Sunday singles matches, with Kim defeating Allenby 5 and 3, only to have the Australian rip Kim for partying the night before their match.

Time for damage control.

On Wednesday Anthony Kim and Robert Allenby released statements through the PGA Tour. So did tour vice president Rick George.

The need to calm a ruckus resulted from comments attributed to Allenby following Sunday's lopsided American victory at the Presidents Cup in San Francisco.

Back in August, the John Daly Traveling Circus committed to some events in Australia. Then news came that Mr. Daly was struggling from a rib injury and stem cell surgery and, well, typical Daly stuff we've come to expect.

So, Australians rejoice, because he will be playing both the Australian Open and Australian PGA less than a year after admitting he'd never play golf Down Under again because of the way the media treated him. Interesting choice of words, since Australia was the site of CameraGate II, when Big John smashed a photographer's camera and told the poor fellow, "You want it back, I'll buy you a new one."

Daly is healthy now, and is excited to get back to Australia because, and we can only presume, he has forgotten his declaration from last December.

Nothing sucks worse than getting beat by a guy you think you should handle. In golf, that can happen in the worst of ways, like having an overweight 50-something take you out or some guy that looks like he's barely touched Golf Pride in his life on the first tee.

Or, in the words of Robert Allenby, you could get beat by a guy 5 and 3 that "Get(s) home at 4 o'clock (in the morning) and then go shoot 6-under." Yep, that is what Allenby said of Anthony Kim after the American's singles match victory over Allenby on Sunday at the Presidents Cup. According to Allenby, Kim was seen returning to the hotel at 4AM early Sunday morning, five hours before his tee off time and, well, drunker than a skunk.

Allenby wasn't amused, and lashed out at the 24-year-old Kim.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The greatest shots in Presidents Cup history? No, not a chance. All the same, Justin Leonard played them perfectly.

Let's talk shot making.

He drained them.

"It was knowing I needed to come out and play well today," he said.

Leonard teamed with Phil Mickelson for Friday's Presidents Cup second round and played top shelf. He birdied the first hole to get the American twosome going in the best-ball competition. He kept pounding until finally rolling in a 12-footer at No. 16 to finish off the International team of Retief Goosen and Adam Scott 3 and 2.

It was a performance instrumental in allowing the United State to lead 6½-5½ going into Saturday's third round.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The world's greatest golfers awoke Friday to news they can now be Olympians.

Somewhere the ancient Greeks are weeping. What's worse, somewhere the modern Chinese are working on a Human Golf Hormone drug.

Their orders are to seize any child who resembles Tiger Woods, pump him full of top-secret Birdie Juice and bring home the gold in 2016 from Rio de Janeiro.

Or else.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Anything with the name Presidents Cup sounds like it is ripe for a Golf Czar appointment.

Are you qualified to rule over this week's PGA Tour team matches between the United States and an International squad of non-Europeans that tees off Thursday at Harding Park Golf Club?

Take this test and decide for yourself.

ATLANTA -- This is as close as the PGA Tour gets to a summer rerun.

Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington are back again, this time for the final twosome of today's third round of the Tour Championship. For the record, it will be the eighth time this year and the fourth since August they will have shared a pairing.

John Daly spends that much time with one person and he owes alimony.

There is nothing to litigate here.

Harrington could not be happier with the partnership.

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M and C.

Those are two letters you could use to sum up Adam Scott's 2009 season. The player that people, at times, had called the next Tiger Woods missed 10 of 18 cuts this year (Tiger has only missed 15 cuts in his career), and has since ended his season by missing out on the top-100, which means he won't advance to this week's Deutsche Bank Championship, an event he won six years ago.

Scott's year has been far from expected. Last year, the 29-year-old Australian had a win on both the PGA and European Tours, making it 14 worldwide wins in his short career. He had the swing that made people, at moments, forget the beauty of Tiger's pass. He had the looks that made even the most Hollywood-minded females (hello Kate Hudson) interested in bogeys or birdies (well, maybe Burberry and biceps, but still) and he had the game that put him on a short list of players who would soon break though on the major championship scene.