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Barnes had to sweat it out before learning his fate for 2009

By Peter Yoon
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, November 10, 2008

Five years later, the infectious smile is back. Ricky Barnes captured the golf world with that smile more than five years ago when the swashbuckling, tight shirt-wearing U.S. Amateur champion made an impressive run in the 2003 Masters. In the five-plus years since, that wide, toothy grin has been weathered as the can't-miss prospect continually missed. He missed putts and missed cuts and it all nearly crashed down on him again Sunday before something finally went right for Barnes. He tied f ...

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