Looking to defend his 2019 title, Steve Stricker is again leading the way after Saturday’s third round at the Regions Tradition.
The cover of the PGA Tour Champions’ Regions Tradition page has been the same for two full years, thanks to the pandemic. The words: “STRICKER WINS FIRST MAJOR AT REGIONS TRADITION” still sit on the page, just as they did 726 days before.
If things hold true to form during Sunday’s final round in Birmingham, Alabama, it won’t take much effort to update things — simply swapping “first” for “third.”
Steve Stricker is again leading the way after Saturday’s third round, using a dramatic flair by posting an eagle on the day’s final hole to vault to the top spot.
Stricker finished the day with a 65 and sits at 14 under for the tournament, a single stroke ahead of Alex Cejka and three shots up on Dicky Pride and Robert Karlsson.
Stricker, the Ryder Cup captain for the Americans, is eager to get the chance to close out the win on Sunday for what would be his third major — he also won the U.S. Senior Open in 2019 — but he knows there’s plenty of work to be done.
“This is why we’re here, to have the opportunity to win. And, you know, winning here a couple years has given me confidence that I can play well around here,” Stricker said. “We had a great day to play. And there’s a lot of good players up around the top. I’m going to have to go out, take care of business tomorrow, and put up another good round like I did today. And Alex played great. It was fun to watch him.”
Steve Stricker finished Friday with a birdie on the final hole to push into a four-way tie for the lead at Greystone Golf and Country Club.
There’s a misconceived notion that those on the PGA Tour Champions are simply soaking up retirement benefits while playing a little golf.
But in the case of Steve Stricker, he might have more going on now than during his time on the PGA Tour.
Stricker, of course, has to be mindful of what’s happening on the Tour, as the Ryder Cup is in just under five months at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, as he’s the American team captain.
Oh, and then there’s the Regions Tradition, the first PGA Tour Champions major of the year this week in Birmingham, Alabama, where Stricker will need to survive four rounds and not the typical three of a senior circuit event.
Despite all the moving parts, Stricker kept his focus on Friday, finishing with a birdie on the final hole of the day to push into a four-way tie for the lead at Greystone Golf and Country Club.
“I’m right there. I didn’t do anything dumb today, just hung around,” Stricker said after his 69, which put him at 7 under after two days, tied with Alex Cejka, Jerry Kelly and Darren Clarke. “We’re only halfway home, so we have a weekend to go. Someone’s going to probably bust out of this pack, I would imagine. The wind is supposed to switch directions for the weekend, so that will shake things up probably a little bit, too.
“The course is in great shape and just kind of continue to do what I’ve been doing.”
Stricker will have six captain’s picks for the Ryder Cup, half of the 12-member team, which will be announced after the second FedEx Cup playoffs event at the end of August. The matches are Sept. 24-26.
But he kept his composure despite some blustery conditions on Friday, giving himself a chance to repeat at Regions — he won by a half-dozen strokes in the 2019 event. Last year’s tournament was canceled due to the pandemic.
“It’s been a struggle the first couple of days with the wind conditions, I feel like. Our whole group kind of struggled today a little bit,” he said. “We had some good up-and-downs and I kept the round going by getting some of these good up-and-downs. But that wind has made it tricky on club selection; you feel like it’s one way and it’s blowing another.
“It’s been hard at times to hit some really quality iron shots.”
Steve Stricker, who sold his Naples home, won the PGA Tour Champions’ Chubb Classic at Tiburón Golf Golf Club by a shot.
NAPLES, Fla. — Steve Stricker is leaving Naples. And he left it Sunday with a win.
Stricker, who sold his Naples home, won the PGA Tour Champions’ Chubb Classic at Tiburón Golf Golf Club at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort.
The 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup captain missed some chances to pull away, but knocked it tight on the par-4 16th and made birdie to give himself enough room for his sixth Champions Tour victory by a single stroke.
“I could have made it a little easier on myself for sure,” said Stricker, whose wife Nicki was his caddie. “I knew exactly where I was. I told Nicki when we were going down No. 14, I said, ‘Let’s get two out of these next three, and I hit it in there at Nos. 14 and 15 and missed them both and hit it in there at No. 16, but if I could have made a couple more putts, it would have been a little bit easier.
“But it’s tough to win. It’s tough to win anywhere, and I’m happy to get it done.”
Stricker, 54, has won six times in 29 PGA Champions Tour starts, but he’s still playing the regular Tour as well, partly to keep tabs on possible players for this year’s Ryder Cup. He’s made three cuts with one top-10 in eight starts there on the wraparound season.
“It kind of goes week to week,” Stricker said of his decision-making regarding what events to play. “I enjoy playing out here. Competition is great. You have to play well to win. But I also still enjoy playing on the regular tour. I’ve had a couple good showings this year so far. If I could get the putter going a little bit, my ball-striking is probably as good as it’s been when I was playing my best out on the regular tour.
“If I can get that putter going, I’ll probably play out on the big tour and see if I can’t make the (FedEx Cup) Playoffs one more time.”
Stricker parred four straight holes, including three-putting for par on the par-5 15th, but recovered on No. 16. Then he put his second shot in a greenside bunker on the par-4 17th, but crafted a delicate shot – with his left foot out of the bunker – to within 3 feet for par.
Steve Stricker acknowledges the crowd after the final round of the Chubb Classic at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida. (Andrew West/The News-Press)
“I didn’t have much of a stance there – shouldn’t have been there in the first place,” he said. “… Yeah, that was a tough little stance and just hacked it out of there and gave myself a four-footer, which I made nicely for a change.”
On the par-5 18th, Stricker put his second shot in the greenside bunker, but couldn’t get up and down for birdie, leaving the door open.
Robert Karlsson, who entered the final round sharing the lead, and Alex Cejka, who won the Monday qualifier, both had to eagle No. 18 to force a playoff. But both missed the green, and although Karlsson’s pitch and Cejka’s bunker shot were fine efforts, neither went in. Both birdied to finish a stroke behind Stricker.
“Today felt a bit uncomfortable,” Karlsson said. “It’s a long time since I’ve been up there. Yeah, it was nice to be up there. I played really well the last few holes.”
“I saw where he was (at 16 under). I thought, ‘I have to try to give it a go.’ But when it came out a little right, I was like, ugh. You can’t expect to hole it from 40 yards when you missed it from six feet a bunch of times throughout the day. That’s not the problem.”
Cejka was trying to become the first Monday qualifier to win on the tour since Doug Barron at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in 2019. Still, his top-10 finish put him automatically into the field at the next eligible event, the Mitsubishi Championship in Atlanta.
“A couple of little mistakes hurt me, especially early in the round,” he said. “This course can be tricky but I gave it a shot until the end.”
Fred Couples and Bernhard Langer both were in contention but fell back with poor tee shots late in the round. They tied for sixth at 13 under.
Couples, who had a share of the lead going into the final round and had won twice in Naples, had to take an unplayable lie on the par-5 15th and bogeyed. Three-time Naples champion Langer, after just missing an eagle putt on that hole, put one in the hazard area on the par-4 16th. He also bogeyed to end his chances.
“(Stricker) played extremely solid, never really made a mistake, he just kept the ball in play, hit good shots, and made a couple of good putts but had a couple other chances, too,” Langer said. “He played really, really steady, just the way you’re supposed to play around here. Hit a lot of 3-woods off the tee, but he’s pretty long still, and yeah, gave himself lots of looks and never had any total stress to get up-and-down or anything like that.”
Tim Petrovic, who shot a 7-under 65, and Charles Schwab Cup leader Kevin Sutherland, who shot 6 under, both tied for third.
Petrovic birdied No. 18, but Sutherland ended up with a par after coming up just short of the green in two.
“I wish I could have made birdie on 18,” Sutherland said. “You never know what’s going to happen. But I just didn’t hit — I hit two poor shots around the green, and that’s the way it goes.”
Stricker was happy he had his wife there as his caddie.
“She’s a great calming influence out there,” he said. “She’s very upbeat. She says the right things.”
Especially when at times a leader’s biggest conflict is with themselves.
“You’re battling yourself, you’re battling the course and you’re battling the other players,” he said. “As the older we get, you’re battling yourself more than anything at times. That’s what makes it hard, and that’s what makes the game hard.”
Stricker was looking up at the leaderboard at what everyone was doing the whole way.
“I was watching it all the time,” he said. “I like to know where I’m sitting. I knew who was coming. I saw the look in Bernhard’s eye there for a little while, and I’m like ‘Uh-oh, here he comes.’
“I saw Freddie was only a shot or two back, and Robert Karlsson who I played with (Saturday) who’s really striking it well, and obviously Kevin Sutherland was already in the house already, or on 18.”
In the end, though, he was looking down at everyone else.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Even though Steve Stricker traveled across Alligator Alley, his commute to this week’s Honda Classic was much smoother that last week’s last-minute trek to The Player Championship.
On Monday, the USA Ryder Cup captain and his wife and caddie, Nicki, took a pleasant drive across the Sunshine State to get from his home in Naples to PGA National, covering the 160 miles in about 2 hours, 30 minutes.
He arrived in plenty of time to take his COVID-19 test for the Honda Classic, relax, and get a good night’s sleep. Woke up the next day for a practice round and plenty of work on the range and putting green, then played nine holes in the pro-am on Wednesday.
Last week on the day of the first round, Stricker, 54, woke up 300 miles away from the PGA Tour’s flagship event when he got word at 6:45 a.m. that he got in as the last alternate. Stricker got moving quickly and flew up to northeast Florida, during which time he set up a caddie, and secured a car to take him from an airport 45 miles south of the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. As soon as he got on site, he took his COVID-19 test, waited for the results, practiced as much as he could and made his tee time.
And shot 2-under-par 70 to move into a tie for 12th after the first round. But he lost a little steam and shot 77 the next day and missed the cut.
“I didn’t mind last week, to tell you the truth,” he said. “I really wanted to play. Ultimately, it would have been nice to have played a practice round, or two. The chipping and putting kind of caught up to me at times.
“I think I ran out of gas a little bit. Mentally, I was a little fatigued. The whole week leading up to it. I kept moving up the alternate list, was wondering if I prepare or not, and I needed a little rest.
“Then the anticipation the night before, and then getting the call. And then you spend the whole day trying to get there and trying to play and I came out a little flat on Friday.”
Stricker had two good days of rest before heading to the Honda Classic. But now comes the tough part. Grueling might be a better word. After playing grinding Bay Hill for four days in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and spending two days walking the tightrope that is Pete Dye’s Stadium Course in The Players, he faces the Champions Course, one of the toughest tracks on the PGA Tour.
“I still find fun in all the pain,” Stricker said with a laugh. “I guess that’s golfers in general. You just keep putting yourself through it no matter what.
“I have three weeks off coming up, so I figure I can endure one more week.”
Steve Stricker woke up 300 miles away and will go to sleep tied for 12th at the Players Championship.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Steve Stricker was laying in bed in his home in Naples in southwest Florida at 6:45 a.m. Thursday when the phone rang.
He woke up in a hurry.
Stricker got word he had moved up to first alternate for the Players Championship when Harris English withdrew with a bad back.
“I’m coming,” Stricker told the other end of the phone.
And with that, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain shifted into overdrive. The day before when he moved up to second alternate he talked to a local guy who would allow Stricker to use his plane to fly to the northeast of the Sunshine State.
He was already packed. And then called and asked English’s caddie, Eric Larson, who had carried Stricker’s bag in the past, if he wanted to pick up his bag. The answer was yes.
“They scrambled the pilots together and I actually got in the air at about 8:30, quarter to 9,” said Stricker, who then got word in the air during the 50-minute flight that he was in the tournament after Justin Rose withdrew with a bad back.
Stricker landed in St. Augustine, with a car waiting for him at the airport. A half hour later he was in the PGA Tour’s testing facility for COVID-19. In less than four hours after waking up, he was on the back range at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass waiting for results of his test.
Negative.
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And then, with a new caddie on his bag, he shot 2-under-par 70 on a day full of carnage on Pete Dye’s diabolical track to finish in a tie for 12th.
And then he had to figure out his accommodations.
“I actually didn’t even play or hit a ball Monday or Tuesday at home or back in Naples. I played Bay Hill last week (in the Arnold Palmer Invitational) and that kind of beat me up a little bit, especially on Sunday,” Stricker said. “I just got some rest, played about 14 holes yesterday, didn’t even hit any balls. I played with my wife and so I came here with not a lot of expectations.
“But excited to be here and I know my game is in decent form, so I was excited to come here to a place that I have played a bunch before. The hard part was just trying to get the speed of the greens, the chip shots, how they’re going to roll out, all that kind of stuff. How you play those shots out of the rough.
“That was the hard and challenging part.”
He figured it out quickly. He birdied four consecutive holes on his first nine to get on the first page of the leaderboard. But he made two bogeys in his last 10 holes and didn’t add to his birdie column but all things considered, he was one happy guy when the round ended.
“I made four birdies in a row and I wasn’t trying to get ahead of myself or anything like that,” Stricker said. “I think I just kind of was running out of gas on the other side, just trying to make pars at that point and get it to the house.”
After wearing red and black on Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Steve Stricker dished on Tiger Woods and his Ryder Cup plans.
ORLANDO, Fla. – United States Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker wore red and black in Sunday’s final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational to show support for Tiger Woods and hopefully replicate some of the magic the best player of his generation unleashed in winning a record eight times at Bay Hill.
“It didn’t do me (expletive),” Stricker said with a smile. “I didn’t make a birdie.”
After signing for a 5-over-par 77, Stricker talked about his captaincy duties and Woods, who is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital following a horrific single-vehicle rollover crash that left him with serious injuries in his right leg, ankle and foot.
“Obviously he’s a friend of mine. I’m trying to keep up on what’s going on with him. I haven’t heard too much lately,” Stricker said. “We’re all pulling for him.
“We’re thankful that he’s alive. I don’t know who said it, but that his kids continue to have a father. Something even more tragic could have come from that.”
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Stricker said he’s “not going to go down that road now,” when asked if he’s given thought to adding Woods as a vice captain for the matches against Europe this September at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Stricker has three vice captains – Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson and Davis Love III – and will likely add two more.
“I’d love to have him around. I’m hoping in one way, shape or form,” Stricker said. “But it’s too early to kind of commit to anything.”
Stricker did say he has ramped up his work for the Ryder Cup.
“We’re starting to talk about players and look at the guys who are playing well,” he said. “We still have a long time. Four majors left, which are worth more. It’s hard not to pay attention to guys who are playing well.
“(Collin) Morikawa winning last week. Seeing Jordan (Spieth) play well. This is probably the fourth tournament in a row he’s played well. To see Bryson (DeChambeau) doing Bryson things. I’m watching a lot, I’m paying attention.”
Stricker will have six discretionary picks for fill out his 12-man squad. Some have questioned if that’s too many.
“It’ll be more happy calls,” Stricker said. “There will be six calls I get to make who are guys I get to tell made the team. But it also opens up the door probably for some criticism on our part. But it’s going to be a team decision all the way around.”
The top six in the U.S. standings currently are Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Morikawa, DeChambeau, Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas.
“I’ll ask the other six guys who are on the team who they are thinking about at the time. Obviously the assistant captains,” he continued. “So it’s going to be a team decision on who those other six are going to be.
“As we get closer, the team will kind of take form and take shape. Then we can start looking outside the top 6 or top 10 and see who is going to fit better with the guys who are already on the team.”
Xander Schauffele overcame a sluggish start and played 5 under during a four-hole stretch to catapult into the lead at the Phoenix Open.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Xander Schauffele has been preaching patience as the key for him to return to the winner’s circle for the first time in over two years. He’s developed a simple mantra to follow: “Control what we can control,” he said.
He and caddie Austin Kaiser did just that on Friday at TPC Scottsdale.
After seeing names leapfrog him on the leaderboard as he made just one birdie in his first 11 holes, Schauffele shifted into overdrive, playing the next four holes in 5 under, and coming home in 30.
“That’s sort of what the team and I talk about, just getting back to the old mentality where I am more patient, I don’t push as much, kind of let the round come to me,” he said. “If you’re playing well, if I try and force things sometimes it works out, but sometimes it doesn’t. So, try and kind of stay in our lane and keep doing what we’re doing.”
Schauffele stayed in his lane to the tune of a 7-under 64 and a 36-hole aggregate of 12-under 130 and a one-stroke lead over Steve Stricker and Keegan Bradley at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Schauffele has been the picture of consistency on the PGA Tour, finishing no worse than T-17 in his last six events, including a share of second last week at the Farmers Insurance Open. This marks the 26th time since the start of the 2017-18 season that he has been in the top-10 through 36 holes, most of any player during that span. The 27-year-old San Diego native has climbed to a career-best of No. 4 in the world and has claimed four career victories, but hasn’t lifted a trophy since the 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions, and went so far as to say on Thursday that he’s choked on occasion.
“I feel like I had a sense of urgency when I really didn’t need to,” Schauffele explained of some of his close calls that didn’t go his way. “I would look back at the week and I was like, ‘Man, why did I kind of jump the gun there? All I had to do was play decent and I would’ve been right there.’”
On Friday, the stretch beginning at No. 12 was nothing short of sensational: a 26-foot birdie putt at 12, a two-putt birdie at 13, sticking his approach from 180 yards to five feet at 14, and sinking a 21-foot eagle putt at 15. The latter just snuck in at the end.
“I thought it was going to miss just left,” he said. “Kind of had soft speed on it and kind of held, which is a bonus.”
Schauffele capped off his day by planting a short iron from 139 yards to five feet and sinking the birdie putt to sleep on the 36-hole lead.
Earlier in the day, Stricker, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, carded a 5-under 66, meaning Tom Brady isn’t the only grizzled veteran seeking another title this Sunday. Stricker, who hasn’t recorded a top-10 finish since the 2017 John Deere Classic and last won on the Tour in 2012, turns 54 later this month. He’s bidding to shatter Sam Snead’s 56-year-old record as the oldest winner on Tour at age 52, 10 months, eight days when he won the Greater Greensboro Open in 1965. He would also become the first golfer age 50 and older to win on Tour since 51-year-old Davis Love III at the 2015 Wyndham Championship.
Steve Stricker plays his third shot from a bunker on the second hole during round two of the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale. (Photo: Rob Schumacher-Arizona Republic)
“I know it’s a long shot,” Stricker said. “I’ve got to play my very best, just like anybody else does out here. But you know, I’ve been there. I’ve won a few times out on this Tour and I know what it takes, although it’s been a while. It would be fun to see how I handle it if I do get that opportunity.”
Bradley came out of the gate with birdies on his first four holes en route to shooting 6-under 65 and tying Stricker for second.
“All it was was having some putts go in. With me, that’s kind of all I need to do,” he said. “I made one really long one last night, and sometimes those get you going.”
Scottie Scheffler (65), K.H. Lee (66) and Sam Burns (67) are tied for fourth at 10-under 132, and Scottsdale resident Nate Lashley (69) is in seventh at 133. The logjam at 8-under 134 includes former major champions Jordan Spieth (67) and Brooks Koepka (66). Spieth, who is mired in a slump that dates to his last win at the 2017 British Open, hit 10 fairways and 16 greens, while Koepka, who is winless since the 2019 PGA Championship, snapped a streak of three straight missed cuts. When asked if it feels as if it has been a long time since he’s tasted victory, Koepka said, “I would say so. In my mind last year didn’t even happen. I do know it’s been a long time so I’m itching to get a W.”
So is Schauffele, but he knows that his work is only half done.
“The fact that I haven’t won, I’m not satisfied,” he said.
The field was trimmed to 66 golfers at 3-under 139 or better. Cut casualties included former Phoenix Open champions Rickie Fowler and Gary Woodland, former major champion Jason Day, and Daniel Burger and Harris English, who both rank in the top 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Lucas Glover, who shot the low round of the day, a 63, Webb Simpson (65) and Justin Thomas (65) all rallied to play the weekend.
Steve Stricker shot a second-round 66 at TPC Scottsdale as he attempts to become the oldest winner in PGA Tour history.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – O Captain! My Captain!
Players such as Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka, who have ambitions of playing on Team USA later this year, should be taking to their chairs like in the movie “Dead Poets Society,” and chanting their allegiance.
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker is taking the words of Robin Williams’s famous character in that flick to heart and seizing the day at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. For much of the day, Stricker seized the lead, shooting 5-under 66 on a chilly morning to climb to 11-under 131 at TPC Scottsdale and share the top spot with Keegan Bradley.
“This is why we’re here, to play at this stage, at this level,” said Stricker.
The last @RyderCupUSA captain to win on the PGA Tour the same year he captained the team was Arnold Palmer in 1963. Palmer won 7 times that season on Tour.
He was also the last playing captain for either side at the Ryder Cup.
Steve Stricker (-11) leads the U.S. team this year.
Tom Brady isn’t the only grizzled veteran seeking another title this Sunday. Stricker, who last won on the PGA Tour in 2012 and turns 54 later this month, is attempting to shatter Sam Snead’s 56-year-old record as the oldest winner on Tour at age 52, 10 months, eight days when he won in Greensboro in 1965. Stricker opened with 6-under 65 on Thursday and heard from several pros that evening, including Brandt Snedeker.
“Snedeker is in my kitchen saying you need to smile, you’re leading the tournament, why aren’t you smiling?” Stricker said. “It was only one round. So, I knew today was an important day to come out and try to back that one up that I did yesterday.”
Stricker had reason to smile on Friday morning. He birdied all three of the par-5s at TPC Scottsdale and drained a 14-foot birdie putt at No. 11, his longest putt of the day. Stricker was bogey-free for the day until he knocked his approach into the front greenside bunker and failed to get up and down. It’s the first time he opened a tournament with consecutive rounds of 66 or better since 2011. Color Billy Horschel, who shot 68, impressed with Stricker’s 36-hole performance.
“I was like, man, he turned back the clock this week a little bit,” Horschel said. “He’s still got a lot of game. He still competes really well. It’s not shocking to see.”
Stricker is mixing in more starts on the PGA Tour this season to scout potential U.S. Ryder Cup participants, along with his play on PGA Tour Champions, where he is the host of the American Family Championship in his native Wisconsin, and made the cut last week at the Farmers Insurance Open, one of the longest layouts on Tour. He’s beating all of his potential players as well as his opposing captain Padraig Harrington and Euro stalwarts John Rahm and Rory McIlroy.
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“He’s realizing that he’s not the shortest guy out here and when he was playing at his best he wasn’t the longest guy out here either,” said wife Nicki, who is on the bag this week for her husband. “He’s just good at doing what he does well and not worrying about anything else and anyone else.”
Stricker credited a change in his putter setup for his hot hand with the shortstick. Always one of the best putters in the game, Stricker considered benching his Odyssey White Hot gamer, which has been in the bag for all but a dozen rounds, he figured, in the last 20+ years. He’s had it re-shafted and replaced the insert a few years ago to keep it in his bag, but went so far as to ask equipment reps for some different models of late to test.
“I will roll them on the green and they will feel pretty good but ultimately I put that old one back in there,” he said.
That old putter and that old guy are doing just fine through 36 holes. But Saturday’s have been a struggle for Stricker of late – he shot 77 last week at Torrey Pines – and so tomorrow it will be important for him to get off to a quick start if he’s going to make a run at his 13th Tour title and becoming the first golfer age 50 and older to win since 51-year-old Davis Love III at the 2015 Wyndham Championship.
“I know it’s a long shot,” he said. “I’ve got to play my very best, just like anybody else does out here. But you know, I’ve been there. I’ve won a few times out on this Tour and I know what it takes, although it’s been a while. It would be fun to see how I handle it if I do get that opportunity.”
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