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Gator Villegas and Sooner Kim renew rivalry as BCS title game nears

- AP

KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) -- The Mercedes-Benz Championship typically makes first-round pairings based on the chronological order of when players won their PGA Tour events to qualify for the event. This year, the Tour decided to based pairings on the final FedExCup standings, putting the defending champion at Kapalua (Daniel Chopra) with the FedExCup champion (Vijay Singh).

That allowed for quite the rivalry in the opening round beyond golf.

In front of them will be Camilo Villegas, who graduated from Florida, and Anthony Kim, who spent two years at Oklahoma. They tee off about two hours before the BCS Championship game between the Gators and the Sooners.

"I'm going to be thinking more about that game than my round, because I've got three more days to make up ground, but the Sooners need every minute," Kim said. "It's going to be very fun playing with Camilo."

Villegas is from Colombia and doesn't have quite the grasp of American football as Kim does, although he loved going to Gators games.

"I'm not a Chris DiMarco that knows the name of every player and knows the stats up and down, but I would love watching the game," Villegas said. "I'll be pulling hard."

Kim took a recruiting trip to Oklahoma, not intending to play golf. The trip included a football game against Alabama, which the Sooners won in the rain. He was sold on the Sooners that day.

"After the football game, I knew that was the school for me," Kim said.

Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 
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