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Article: For now, refer all talk of Grand Slam to Sorenstam
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 21, 2005
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And so, during this 75th anniversary of Bobby Jones' Grand Slam,
there will, for the 75th consecutive time, be no one to match him.
Or maybe there will. Tiger Woods' putting woes
down the stretch of the final round of the U.S. Open on Sunday at
Pinehurst No. 2 were the best thing that could have happened to
Annika Sorenstam -- not to mention Michael Campbell -- because they
left her squarely, and solely, in the Grand Slam spotlight.
Or maybe they didn't.
Of all the storied feats in the history of sports, the Grand Slam
is surely the strangest. It was born on the fly in 1930, pronounced
dead a few years later, resurrected in a different form 30 years
later and presented ...