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Working mothers: Trying to balance golf and kids

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When Tiger Woods welcomed his first child, Sam, into the world almost 11 years ago, there wasn’t a lot of consternation over how being a father might affect his PGA Tour schedule that year.

Or how it would impact his skills.

Woods won four of his next seven starts that year, including the PGA Championship.

When Phil Mickelson was preparing to welcome his first child, Amanda, into the world in 1999, it was big news, because there loomed the possibility he might pull out of the U.