‘Well done if you backed him.’ A line that would have be banded around a fair bit immediately after the 133rd Open Championship. In fairness to then 38-year-old American Todd Hamilton, he was ranked 56th in the world at the time; he’d also won on the PGA Tour several months prior to lifting the Claret Jug at Royal Troon. However, it would be fair to say the man from Galesbugh, Illinois was one of the more unfancied runners that week.
