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Article: British Open found the champ it deserved Curtis is going to be the greatest accidental champion in the history of golf.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 21, 2003
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SANDWICH, England--Nobody won the British Open. Everyone
lost it, everyone who is anyone, the "heavy guys" as identified by
Ben Curtis--about whom there shall be more later--when the
afterthought from Kent, Ohio, set out amongst them on Sunday for the
final round in the mean little weed patch by the channel in County
Kent, a place so ill-suited to golf that the guy who should have won,
twice hit his ball out of a bunker, onto the green, only to have it
roll back into the bunker.
This was less golf than simple madness, without logic or reward,
staged in a place that got the champion it deserved, the 396th best
player in the world, a ranking still superior to the real estate.
Tiger ...