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Article: Confidence game lifts Curtis Former British Open winner just looking to play 4 good rounds
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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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, ...