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Ernie Els got to kiss his significant other Sunday. Almost 10 years to the day, Els and the Claret Jug reunited for a totally unexpected greenside makeout moment.
Ah, love.
"It's just crazy, crazy, crazy getting here," said Els, whose back-nine 32 gave him a 2-under-par 68 and a 1-stroke victory.
Meanwhile, just about everybody else on the Open Championship leaderboard had to hose vomit off their golf shoes afterward. That's how awful, how comical and how compelling their play was as they tried, with zero success, to navigate Sunday majors pressure.
It was so bad, it was good. It was so sad, it was painful to witness. You couldn't go 60 seconds without seeing a player in need of the...
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