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Photos: Tiger Woods Wins the 2008 U.S. Open

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The Smile Disappears

Tiger Woods - 2008 U.S. OpenDoug Pensinger / Getty Images
Those early smiles gave way to grimaces, frowns and some quick shows of temper from Woods as the day wore on. Because twice Woods managed to build 3-stroke leads over Mediate but both times Mediate came back to catch Woods.

The flash of anger pictured above happened on the 12th hole of the playoff, a hole Woods would bogey.

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