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Fri 05 May 2007Mickelson shows way as Woods strugglesFor most players who endured this test of survival, the smiles were provided through gritted teeth. With an at-times swirling, at times-gusting wind accentuating the challenges of the TPC at Sawgrass course in yesterday's first round of The Players, the mirror-images were provided by familiar figures: Tiger Woods, who lost to the course; and Phil Mickelson, one of the few to triumph over it.To be sure, it was - in the main - a batten-down-the-hatches sort of day.