Further birdies followed on one, four, six and eight, where he almost holed out with a nine-iron approach.

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World number one Tiger Woods played superbly in the testing winds and almost holed his drive to the par-four 18th.

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The Northern Irishman clawed back a couple of shots, and nearly holed his approach to the 18th, but at one-over par for the tournament is too far back to mount a challenge.

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According to information gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency, bin Laden was holed up on the third floor of a house in a one-acre compound just off Kakul Road in Bilal Town, a middle-class neighborhood less than a mile from the entrance to the academy.

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But when he holed out to mid-on, it was the first of three wickets in one over for the former Bangladesh captain.

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McLaren played one or two lovely shots in his maiden Test innings to finish with 33, but Boucher finally holed out in the deep off Swann - a wicket barely celebrated by England - and the declaration soon followed.

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