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Strange (2), Payne Stewart (2), Lee
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Janzen (2), Ernie Els (2), Tiger Woods
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(3) and Retief Goosen (2).
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but some are more dramatic than
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others, all of which brings us to Woods.
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In 2000, he won his first Open (and first
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of the major championship victories that
year) at Pebble Beach by a record 15
strokes, the largest winning margin in
any of the four major championships.
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In 2008, he won the Open in a playoff
Course insight: hole 17
over Rocco Mediate while playing on a
left leg that was broken in two places as
well as a left knee that required surgery
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shortly after the Open.
Shotlink: How did Glover do it?
• In 1974, when players protested that
the USGA was trying to “embarrass
the best players in the game,” Frank
most poignant love stories, it had more
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D. “Sandy” Tatum, who would serve
than its share of heartbreak. His lone • A record 10 players as the USGA’s president in 1978
victory came in 1960 at Cherry Hills,
missed the cut despite
and 1979, neatly summarized the
having at least one
where he fired a final-rough 65 to make
round in the 60s.
organization’s philosophy: “No,” said
up seven strokes and edge Hogan, who
• Just 13 players made
Tatum. “We’re trying to identify them.”
was making his last real run at the U.S.
the cut at Bethpage
Which is just what they’ve been doing
Black in both the 2002
Open, and a young amateur named
and 2009 U.S. Opens.
since 1895. ■
Jack Nicklaus. Palmer would go on
to finish second four times in the U.S.
Open, losing three times in playoffs, but Course insight: hole 18
even his losses were the compelling
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stuff of legend.
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• Nicklaus may have finished second at
H Cherry Hills, but he didn’t wait long to
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win his first of four Opens. In 1962 he
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beat Palmer in a playoff at Oakmont
R Country Club, a loss made all the more
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painful for Palmer since Oakmont is
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near his hometown, Latrobe, PA, and
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the galleries were wildly on his side.
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• Other multiple winners in the modern
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era include Billy Casper (2), Lee Trevino
(2), Hale Irwin (3), Andy North (2), Curtis
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