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Gimme a break AUSTRALIAN Adam Scott had to tolerate playing with a broken bone near his right little finger. “Well, it's broken,'' said Scott, who shot a first-round 73. “It's not my finger anyway, it's my hand. It doesn't really affect my golf swing, so I'm pretty lucky to be playing.'' Scott, a six-time winner on the PGA Tour, broke the bone when a friend slammed his hand in a car door in London in mid-May. “It's pretty miserable,'' he said. Scott had to balance resting the hand and doing exercises to keep his strength. “Obviously it hasn't healed yet. It's only been a couple weeks since I broke it. But it's strong enough to where I can play and it's improved a lot in the last five days since I got here. So it's been no problem.'' Yani sighting AS if the massive gallery following Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott... [read full story]