Residence: Stow, Ohio
DOB: 26/05/1977 |
Ben Curtis is best known for winning The Open Championship in 2003 at Royal St George’s Golf Club where he beat Thomas Bjorn and Vijay Singh by a single shot. It was only his 13th place at the Western Open on the US PGA Tour two weeks earlier that had qualified him to play in The Open – and he became the first golfer since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to win a major championship on a debut. Despite this extraordinary win, 2004 and 2005 were fairly lacklustre, but he bounced back in 2006 with two victories on the US PGA Tour - the rain-soaked Booz Allen Classic and the Lumber Classic – to earn more than $2m and giving him a spot in The Tour Championship (TPC) for the first time in his career. |