A Masters Clash?

Steadily spectacular David Duval and fragile but fearsome Tiger Woods could be a great rivalry

This week the two greatest golfers in the world, David Duval, 27, and Tiger Woods, 23, will play in the Masters, the greatest of golf tournaments. It offers the tantalizing possibility of a head-to-head shoot-out between two of the game's rocket launchers, and the kind of Jack Nicklaus vs. Arnold Palmer face-off that can make golf absolutely riveting television. Alas, there are eight dozen more golfers in the field. Let's hope they don't get in the way.

You know Tiger, of course. When he won his green jacket in '97--crushing the course and the competition with a 12-stroke margin of victory--he...

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