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Article: Golf: The day that blew Ian Baker-Finch away
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- July 13, 2004
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
07-13-2004
Golf: The day that blew Ian Baker-Finch away
STEVE CONNOLLY recalls former champion Ian Baker Finch's first round 92 the last time
the British Open was played at Royal Troon.
Mark down July 17, 1997, as one of the saddest days in the history of Australian golf.
It was the day when the golfing career of Ian Baker-Finch sunk to a tragic all-time low.
A British Open winner at Royal Birkdale six years earlier, Baker-Finch had been enduring
one of the worst slumps ever suffered by a prominent sportsperson.
He'd abandoned the United States PGA tour a year earlier after missing 32 consecutive
halfway cuts.
When he played the 1995 Open at St Andrews ...