Article: Confidence game lifts Curtis Former British Open winner just looking to play 4 good rounds

Ben Curtis might have been the only one, but he had a feeling he might come up with a 7-under-par 64 in the first round of the Western Open on Thursday, a score good enough to put him in a tie with Jim Furyk and Todd Fischer for the lead at Cog Hill.

I was at home last week and got some confidence going," Curtis said. I played three days in a row and each day it just got better and better, and that's just how golf is. Each day that you play well, you get a little more confidence."

Curtis, 28, is best known for coming out of nowhere to win the British Open in 2003. But he has only one top-10 finish since that tournament, a tie for eighth in the Memorial in 2004. He has struggled this year, ...

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