Todd Hamilton
FameRank: 4

"Won": 2004 Open Championship/2004

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"William Todd Hamilton" is an American professional golfer.

Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg, Illinois/Galesburg. He grew up in an even smaller town, Oquawka, in Henderson County, Illinois/Henderson County on the Mississippi River. He attended Union High School in Biggsville, Illinois. He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he played collegiately.

Hamilton turned professional in 1987 but was unable to gain entrance to the PGA Tour. Instead he played internationally for many years, primarily on the Japan Golf Tour. When he left the Japan Golf Tour, he was the tour's all-time leading non-Japanese money winner, with earnings of over 630 million yen (about $6.18 million in 2014 US dollars) with 11 tour wins.

After eight tries, at the age of 38, Hamilton went back to Qualifying School in 2003, where he finally earned his first PGA Tour card.

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I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days.

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It was six o'clock, then it turned to 7, then 8.

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As soon as I walked out of the shop, you know the assistant pro would get on the phone and call his friends and say, hey, bring your camera over, the British Open trophy is here in the shop.

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So we had a few beers that year for sure.

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Just out through seven days, we really don't see anything major as far as cool down.

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I don't know how they found out he was going in there to caddy, ... Every time he tries to go across the border now he's got the big red X.

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He brought me a lot of good luck.

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Your hand tosses are nicer than Bambi's. He tends to lob the ball too low.

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I didn't take it anywhere crazy out of respect for the trophy and myself. I didn't want to treat it like the Stanley Cup, which I guarantee has been in a lot of places it shouldn't have been.

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