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Watson smile, magic light up Open

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 12, 2003

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. -- The worry had been that bringing the U.S. Open to Olympia Fields Country Club would be like taking a Broadway play to New Haven. The stage wouldn't be big enough, the theater too small. Oh, we of little faith. The 103rd Open not only gave us all the tried and true storylines that we expect from the national championship, it went one better. It gave us Tom Watson atop the leaderboard. It gave us 53-year-old Tom Watson, and his caddie, Bruce Edwards, dying of Lou Gehrig ...

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