Word: medinah
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...Championship was held in Medinah, which is in Illinois, which is in the U.S., but you wouldn't have guessed it by the 18th hole on Sunday, as the oles for Sergio drowned the roars for Tiger. You would have thought the tournament was being staged at Valderrama. Which is in Spain and was, by the way, the site of the last Ryder Cup set-to in 1997. The U.S. squad was heavily favored to win that matchup but lost to Captain Seve Ballesteros' inspired team. The Yanks were heavily favored to win the 1995 Ryder Cup too, but choked...
...never thought how far he had given himself to fall. He was absolutely sure." Watson laughs at that now. "My father got mad at me that night. Even if you think it,' he said, do you have to say it?'" At the next U.S. Open, in Medinah, Ill., Watson followed record rounds of 67 and 68 with calamitous scores of 78 and 77, convincing everyone but himself that he was a choker...
...weeks later Watson came back to win his first professional golf tournament, the Western Open. "My goal," he baldly announced after that one victory, "is to be the best golfer in the world." The following spring at Medinah, Ill., Watson's next Open experience was even crueler-after he established a 36-hole record for an Open, his game collapsed again-and something close to a phobia took hold...
Irion was bitten by the golf bug back in the days when he sneaked into the Golden Acres Country Club for a quick round while living in Hoffman Estates. Irion's home in Illinois was only five minutes away from the Medinah golf club where the 1975 U.S. Open was held. Medinah was built by the Shriners, members of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The course features a resplendent mock Moorish clubhouse and is laid out around Lake Kadijah, named after Mohammed's wife. In fact, those same Shriners are responsible for building that nondescript...
...taut excitement of these holes was provided by the methodical par-pummeling of Green's doughty scrambling. The winner of the Open title in 1975 at Medinah, Graham blazed to birdies on the 12th (which Ben Hogan has called "the greatest part-four, 12th hole in the United States") and on the 14th, 15th and 16th...