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Mon 04 Apr 2007Johnson closes in on titleGOLF:One by one on Masters Sunday, they filed the10 yards from the practice green to the first tee; many without hope, some with a glimmer that this could be their time and a few firmly believing that it would be.And such days, with a green jacket on the line and in his sights, Tiger Woods often takes the step onto the first tee with a sense of infallibility, that it is his chosen duty in life to collect majors.