Curtis Strange returns to Oak Hill for PGA Championship with mixed bag of memories -
That was only interesting until the two-time U.S. Open champion did the math. “There’s not a lot to choose from,” Strange said with a laugh.The strongest remains the 1989 U.S. Open, where Strange showed his mettle in the toughest test in golf by making 15 straight pars to take the lead, made his lone birdie on the 16th hole and became the first player since Ben Hogan in 1951 to win back-to-back.But then he returned to Oak Hill as a captain’s pick for the 1995 Ryder Cup.
Strange hasn’t been back to the course in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, since that day. He spoke one year at the J.R. Williams Four-Ball at Oak Hill. He thought about playing in 2008 at the Senior PGA Championship until he saw the forecast of frigid temperatures and withdrew. Failure is inevitable, particularly in golf, and most players tend to linger on losses. Jim Furyk has the distinction of being in the match that lost the Ryder Cup and won the Ryder Cup . He concluded, “Losing hurts worse than winning feels good.”Strange knows the feeling, but that U.S. Open title - “Move over, Ben,” he said when he won at Oak Hill - is not easily overlooked and one reason he said of Oak Hill, “It’s a great place to return.
He recalls every moment on the back nine from that Sunday, starting with the late Bill Millsaps of the Richmond Times-Dispatch giving him a thumbs-up on the 10th tee.His only bogey was a three-putt on the final hole. There was no big celebration because he still had Kite and Scott Simpson behind him. There was simply the joy of winning his national Open again, and the satisfaction of doing what no one - not Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus or Tom Watson - had managed to do in 38 years.
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