Golf: Open Closed to European Stars ; the Winner at Troon Next Sunday Is Unlikely to Be From These Shores or the Continent but, Says Frank Malley, at Least We Should Know His Name
Birmingham Post › July 10, 2004
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In the Brazilian rainforest of newsprint which greeted the morning of the final round of last year's Open Championship there was not a mention of Ben Curtis.
As his name progressively rose on the scoreboard, however, the American reporters in the press marquee and the television producers outside scurried around trying to discover something, anything, about one of their own.See the full content of this document
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Golf: Open Closed to European Stars ; the Winner at Troon Next Sunday Is Unlikely to Be From These Shores or the Continent but, Says Frank Malley, at Least We Should Know His Name
Incredibly, Curtis was playing his first major championship. He was ranked 96 in the world. He had never won a tournament on Tour.
Yet he held off the challenge of the world's best, including eight-times major champion Tiger Woods, whose o...See the full content of this document
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