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Page B2 August 23, 2000 (The ^lüvtlanb ©bseruer ^Jortlauò (Pbeerurr Metro/Sports Great finish, season for Woods Ben H ogan so thoroughly dom inated professional g o lf in 1953 that when he returned hom e from the British O pen after w inning his third m ajor cham pionship, he was treated to a ticker-tape parade. F or T iger W oods, they m ight as well save the confetti. H e not only m atched H ogan’s feat o f three m ajors in one season, he set a new benchm ark o f dom ination by w inning his fourth out o f the last five, w inning the P G A Cham pionship on S unday in a thrill-a-m inute playoff o v er B ob M ay. Is it the g reatest season ever in golf? “T hree m ajor cham pionships and the season is not over for T iger,” Tom W atson said. “ It w ould rank right up w ith the b est.” B obby Jones w on the G rand Slam in 1930, b ut that w as at a tim e in w hich the “m ajors” w ere defined as the U.S. O pen and A m ateur and the British O p en and A m ateur. Jones never turned professional. H ogan turned in w'hat is generally re g a rd e d as th e g re a te st sin g le season feat in g o lf in 1953.H ew as41, his legs still w eak from a car accident four years earlier that nearly killed him , w hen he w on five o f the six tournam ents he played. H e w on the M asters, U.S. O pen and British O pen, the only m ajors he entered. H ogan couldn’t play the P G A C h a m p io n s h ip th a t y e a r J e ffe rs o n ’s ‘o th e r ’ guard now ‘the’ guard UCLA, Kansas, Arizona and Duke. Sounds like a heck o f a Final Four, doesn’t it? For Jefferson High School point guard A aron Miles, the schools are his final fo u r— his options, as he decides w here he will continue his basketball career a year from now. Miles, who was a starting guard for the D em ocrats as a ju n io r last season w hen they w on the Class 4 A basketball title, has become one o f the hottest prospects in the nation. The 6-foot Miles is rated No. 4 in the nation am ong point guards by FoxSports.com, and after a sum m er o f im pressive show ings at national camps and tournaments, h e h as h is c h o ic e o f th e aforem entioned schools. “It’s kind o fa surprise,” Miles said. “ Starting this summ er, I was a little Jow in the rankings, so 1 knew I had aside,” said Troy Berry, the I incohi High School coach who coached M iles on the P o rtla n d E lite B a s k e tb a ll O rganization’s I egends team the last two sum m ers. “ But he is the best player in the nation at point guard. H ecan score w hen he wants, but he gets everyone involved with h is p a s s in g . W h e n y o u ca n dom inate a gam e w ith the pass the w ay Aaron does, it really says a lot about a p lay er’s basketball IQ” Miles toured the nation this sum m er playing for the Legends team — a group o f the top high school players in O regon and m ore colleges started show ing interest in him. Kansas coachRoy W illiams, UCLA coach Steve Lavin and A rizona c o a c h L u te O ls o n all m a d e appearances at the team ’s games. K en tu c k y an d N o rth C a ro lin a jum ped on the bandw agon later in the sum m er, but by then. M iles had narrow ed his choices. to play hard to m ove up.” A nd he did. Earlier this sum m er M iles was invited to the N ational B asketball Players A ssociation cam p in W ashington. The cam p features the top 80 high school players in the nation, and Miles won the most valuable playera ward at the cam p, joining past w inners such as Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson. “ I’ve tried to put all biases "E veryw here I w ent, people were w atching m e,” Miles said. M iles, who has a 3.5 grade-point average and scored 1,020 on the S A T, said he plans to sign a letter o f intent w ith Kansas, UCLA, Arizona or Duke in November, after he makes visits to two or three schools in O ctober. Duke recently signed a point guard, so one o f the other schools could have the edge. A ssociated P ress Tiger Woods points to his ball as it drops fo r birdie on the first hole o f a three-hole playoff against Bob May at the PGA Championship on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2000 at the Valhalla G olf Club in Louisville, Ky. May made par on the hole. because it w as held the sam e w eek as British O pen quali lying, and Hogan ’ s legs could not have carried him for over 200 holes o f the m atch-play format. “ Ben H ogan . .. he has won so m any to u rn am en ts i t ’s scary — especially after the car accident, to come back and play as wel 1 as he did,” W oods said. “H e w as incredible. He played at a level that not too m any players could ever attain.” History will determ ine that, because W oods isjustgettingw arm edup. “ I remember H ogan in his heyday,” said Peter Thom son, a five-tim e British Open champion. “He was equally awesome, very nearly unbeatable. 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