Great sports week here in the Twin Cities. On Thursday, the Twins continued to steamroll with an amazing ninth straight win, the T-Wolves drafted O.J. Mayo and then worked out a savvy midnight deal to get the talented Kevin Love and Mike Miller from Memphis (while also, to the dismay of my gal, getting rid of stubble-faced Marko Jaric), and the U.S. Women's Open got kick-started at Interlachen Country Club in Edina. As I was out at the course writing a few pieces for an alternate publication, our most amiable C.P. web editor Jeff "Dottie Pepper" Shaw was kind enough to let me share some golf impressions in this space as well.

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Not really. But he did finally lose. Tiger's streak of seven straight tournament victories, including five PGA Tour events, came to an end today at the CA Championship. Starting the rain-ravaged tournament's final day with seven holes to play and five strokes behind, Woods couldn't close the gap on Geoff Ogilvy. He finished a shameful fifth on the leaderboard--two strokes behind the leader.