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Just call him Relentless Ben

By Jim Moriarty
Golf World

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

When the difference between a thoroughbred and a plow horse can be as slim as one six-foot putt a day, the life of a touring professional is more apt to wind up in a house of mirrors than the Hall of Fame. In the movie "Bull Durham," minors home run king Crash Davis narrowed it down to, "just one more dying quail a week and you're in Yankee Stadium." Ben Bates is the undisputed Crash Davis of the Nationwide Tour, having made more 36-hole cuts in Smallville -- 194 and counting -- than any man al ...

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