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Majors are now wide open events

By Tim Rosaforte
Golf World

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Rich Beem. Ben Curtis. Shaun Micheel. Todd Hamilton. Throw those names out as major championship winners two summers ago and Tiger Woods would have thought you'd been watching too much Golf Channel. Now, though, four of the last eight major championship winners have been won by: a former cell phone salesman (Beem); the 396th best player in the world (Curtis); a career grinder ranked 169th (Micheel); and a journeyman (Hamilton). The phenomenon we're seeing was brought to the attention of Peter ...

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