But the last man to win back-to-back U.S. Opens was Curtis Strange more than 20 years ago.

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He was impotent at The Belfry after Curtis Strange sent him out last.

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Then-U.S. captain Curtis Strange remembers some players grumbling after a practice round a sign that Mr. Torrance had scored a point.

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Torrance has calmed down now, of course, and is trying his best to agree a truce with friend and rival captain Curtis Strange.

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Two players have shot a 62 on the Old Course - Curtis Strange during the old Alfred Dunhill Cup in 1987 and Brian Davis in the Dunhill Links Championship in 2003.

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