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After a lot of hype and some trash talking -- hey, Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson know how to promote -- the time for the golf showdown has arrived.

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Manning again rolled his birdie putt close for gimme par.

Who would have taken the bet that Tiger Woods would be the farthest away.

First, Brady stepped up and hit his tee shot to 8 feet.

Then, up stepped Peyton Manning.

His tee shot came to rest 17 inches from the hole.

Woods' next shot came to rest 40 feet away, so clearly they were going to use Manning's shot.

Brady went first and drilled his putt 15-feet past the hole.

Manning, meanwhile, cozied his birdie effort up close to gimme range.

Phil Mickelson just gave six-time Super Bowl winning Tom Brady the "That's alright" you give your partner when they are completely tanking and not helping but you want to be nice.

Under most circumstances, the putt Peyton Manning had for par would have been conceded in a friendly match.

Things have changed in this one, as Mickelson and Brady try to get close!

So they made Manning putt the short one -- and he missed.

Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady were 3 down at the turn.

Now they're only 1 down to Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning thru 14 holes!!.

Of course, it didn't matter, because Woods made birdie to tie the hole.

This was another hole in which Brady and Manning got a stroke.

Woods, with a 4-iron, and Mickelson, with a 6-iron, made bogey to tie the hole.

"When does football season start?" - Tom Brady after his tee shot on the 4th hole.

To make things worse for Brady, Manning rolls in a 30-footer for birdie to win the hole.

For a change, Woods and Mickelson didn't matter on this one.

The pros had a long-drive challenge, which Woods won after Mickelson went wide left.

Manning and Brady both got a shot on the hole, meaning basically they got to knock one off their total score for the hole.

Luckily, it's best-ball format, so Mickelson and Woods can bail them out.

Woods and Manning posted an easy par, even as Manning heckled his opponents for talking a little too loudly as he lined up his birdie putt

Phil explaining a pitch shot from off the green is all-world Phil..

Mickelson, Brady and Manning all with ugly tee shots

Brady and Manning eventually moved out of the way, leaving Phil and Tiger to grind out 5-footers for par to tie the hole