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Who?
Not Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, or Padraig Harrington, who have won a total of 20 Majors?
What do you mean?
Not a rising star like Geoff Ogilvy, Paul Casey, or Ian Poulter?
C'mon—I must be dreaming, right?
This wet and soggy U.S. Open may go on forever and then a day.
Am I dreaming?
Third-round play started very late Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and was suspended at 7:09 p.m.
Ricky Barnes?
I remember him from the 2003 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields outside of Chicago.
The one that Jim Furyk won.
Barnes, at the time, was a huge, chiseled V-shaped strapping youth all of 22-years-young.
This kid was bigger than Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.
His invitation to play in the U.S. Open back then?
He was the 2002 United States Amateur Champion from Stockton, California who played college golf at the University of Arizona and was a First-team All-American.
The 6'2'', 200-pounder beat Hunter Mahan in the final match 2-and-1 at Oakland Hill CC—site of last year's PGA Championship; The one won by Padraig Harrington, who missed the cut yesterday at Bethpage Black.
Earlier in 2003, he was the low amateur at the Masters Tournament. He outscored his playing partner Tiger Woods by seven shots in the opening round and finished T21.
Where has he been these past six years?
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