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Tue 05 May 2007Verplank breezes in with Lord Nelson's helpUS TOUR: Scott Verplank won the Byron Nelson championship with, he says, an assist from above. "There's no doubt in my mind that the stars lined up and I got a little help from upstairs," Verplank said after clinching a one-stroke victory over Luke Donald in Dallas.