And since Brooks has done it, that doesn’t take anything away,” Strange said. “As the years went on, it meant more and more. It was 29 more years before Brooks Koepka won two in a row at the U.S. 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. There was no big celebration because he still had Kite and Scott Simpson behind him. His only bogey was a three-putt on the final hole. not that you ever want to forget, but you don’t want them in your brain forever.” Hopefully, you have some good with the bad. “I still to this day feel for my captain (Lanny Wadkins) and the team members. “As time has gone on, it’s hard to describe ’95 as a bad memory,” Strange said. What does he think when he pulls into Oak Hill? What memories will be the first to surface? His guess is probably both, and that’s OK. He thought about playing in 2008 at the Senior PGA Championship until he saw the forecast of frigid temperatures and withdrew. Strange hasn’t been back to the course in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, since that day. “The press can’t beat me up more than I’ll beat up myself.” “What do you want to know? Bogey, bogey, bogey,” Strange said that day. Strange covered his brow with his hand during the closing ceremony, a snapshot that captured the moment. It wasn’t the winning point, just the most crucial for Europe. Strange had Nick Faldo beat until he didn’t, making bogey on the last three holes. The Americans had a 9-7 lead and kept losing every match that reached the 18th hole. “It wasn’t so much what I did, it’s what others didn’t do,” Strange said.īut then he returned to Oak Hill as a captain’s pick for the 1995 Ryder Cup. 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. “There’s not a lot to choose from,” Strange said with a laugh.Įven so, no other course brings such a mixed bag of memories. That was only interesting until the two-time U.S. His return to Oak Hill as part of the ESPN broadcast team for the PGA Championship will mark the first time commentating at a course where he won a major championship. (AP Photo/Tom Kilips)Ĭurtis Strange first began working as a golf analyst more than 25 years ago. Strange returns to Oak Hill for the PGA Championship on May 18-21 as part of the ESPN broadcast team. Open for the second straight year, June 18, 1989, at the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.FILE- Curtis Strange reaches the 18th green waving to the crowd as he is about to win the U.S. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

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