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Why they are here
The Big Easy — two US Opens, two Open Championships, and a swing that golfers still hold up as the model of how the thing should look.
Theodore Ernest Els is six foot three and swings the club as though he is not trying, which is where the nickname came from and why teaching professionals have used film of him for thirty years.
He won the US Open in 1994 at twenty-four, in a play-off, and again in 1997. He won the Open Championship at Muirfield in 2002 and at Royal Lytham in 2012, the second of those at forty-two after Adam Scott dropped four shots in the last four holes. He also won the World Match Play at Wentworth seven times, spent long stretches ranked second in the world, and was runner-up in majors on six occasions, most of them to Tiger Woods, whose career overlapped his almost exactly.
His son Ben was diagnosed with autism in 2008, and Els has since put a great deal of his own money and time into the Els for Autism Foundation and the school it built in Florida, which he has described as the more important project.
He won the US Open in 1994 at twenty-four, in a play-off, and again in 1997. He won the Open Championship at Muirfield in 2002 and at Royal Lytham in 2012, the second of those at forty-two after Adam Scott dropped four shots in the last four holes. He also won the World Match Play at Wentworth seven times, spent long stretches ranked second in the world, and was runner-up in majors on six occasions, most of them to Tiger Woods, whose career overlapped his almost exactly.
His son Ben was diagnosed with autism in 2008, and Els has since put a great deal of his own money and time into the Els for Autism Foundation and the school it built in Florida, which he has described as the more important project.
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