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In a rarity for the PGA Tour, American players will be the only ones in the final two groups tomorrow when the Deutsche Bank Championship is decided at TPC Boston.

In even more of a rarity, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will not be the ones entering with the upper hand. Two lesser known Americans, Brett Wetterich from Cincinnati and Arron Oberholser of San Luis Obispo, Cal., will begin the last round in the top two spots.

Wetterich fired a 66 today, including his third eagle of the week, to move to 13-under-par 200 entering the finale of the $7 million event. Oberholser flashed more excellent putting, as he has all week, as he also posted a 66 to get to 12-under and sole possession of second place.

Those two both have won one PGA Tour event in their careers, both last year, Oberholser at Pebble Beach and Wetterich at the Byron Nelson.

The two guys behind them in the next-to-last group are much more familiar faces in the winner’s circle. They are Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Mickelson, playing with Wetterich, had a 68 to stand at 202 and alone in third. Woods is tied for fourth, with Australian Aaron Baddeley, three behind Wetterich. Woods had a 67 despite three-putting each of the last two holes while Baddeley had 70. Woods was not a happy camper when it was over because of his poor putting on the last two holes.

``I can describe it in a lot of different ways,’’ he said when asked what he was feeling, ``but I’ll just leave it as I’m not very happy right now.’’ Because Woods finished before Baddeley which put him in the penultimate twosome with Mickelson, with whom he also played the first two days.

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