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...Starting June 14, Oakmont will torture a more skilled set of duffers: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and the rest of the PGA players chasing the U.S. Open title. "I can't think of a hole where you go, 'Whew, I'm glad I'm on this one,'" says Brad Faxon, a 25-year tour veteran. "No golf club in America takes more pride in the difficulty of its course." Or, as an Oakmont member puts it, "We love to beat the liver out of people...
...went to London Links, where the qualifier was being held, and they treated me wonderfully," Faxon says. "The club captain gave me a necktie, and said I could play there any time, the rest of my life. They realized what I was doing. I?ll tell you, once you?re established in this game, it does kind of make you suck up your ego to be playing a qualifier, but those folks made me feel just great...
...easier to go in this direction-Scottish links-style golf back to our parkland game-rather than switch from our game to theirs. I played well from the beginning, everything was on, and the wrist, which had still been hurting early in the season, felt okay." By Sunday Faxon had the lead, and he still held it-but barely- at the 18th tee, when he sent his tee shot far right towards the forest. "It went right through the trees and out it came." A chip and a putt and the trophy was his for another year...
...Obviously that week was a highlight of my season," says Faxon, who got his winnings total back up toward a million for the year. "It was a funny season for me golfwise, what with trying to get my game right again after the wrist thing. But overall I?d say I had a pretty good year." Better than pretty good, in other ways: On September 15th at the Ritz in Boston, he remarried, to the aforementioned Dory. "Dory?s a Rhode Islander too," says Faxon. "Everything?s good right now-the golf, the wrist and best of all Dory...
...golf, in 2001, has been very good for Faxon, with a big win early in Hawaii and a rise into the top ten in money winning and top 15 in Ryder Cup points. He is not, therefore, making friends with club captains today in Fairhaven or Hillside or Southport & Ainsdale or the St. Annes Old Links, where final British Open qualifying is being staged. He?s already into the main draw, which is too bad for his many fans in Endicott, N.Y., but good for golf. Such as Brad Faxon should be in the majors. He is. We?re rooting...