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Article: Baker-Finch is back, but not out of woods.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- May 17, 2001
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FORT WORTH _ At 30, you reach the pinnacle of your profession. What could be grander for a son of Australia than to claim the British Open championship?
Four years later, it is gone. You begin a two-year stretch during which you will not make a single cut.
And then, at 36, you take one final go at the British Open, scrape it around for a 92 in the opening round and call it quits.
For the tournament. For the 1997 season. Maybe forever.
This was Ian Baker-Finch's story until Thursday morning at Colonial. For the first time since that awful day at Troon, Baker-Finch, a successful broadcaster at 40, teed it up in a PGA Tour event. As a ...