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Beem feels as though he belongs

Rich Beem, the PGA champion at Hazeltine in 2002, got himself reacquainted with the course in a practice round yesterday. Rich Beem, the PGA champion at Hazeltine in 2002, got himself reacquainted with the course in a practice round yesterday. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press)
By Michael Whitmer
Globe Staff / August 12, 2009

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The last tournament Rich Beem won was the 2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club, when he held off Tiger Woods by a stroke and produced a little shimmy - putter raised, head held high, eyes closed - after holing out on the 18th green. It also spawned a special relationship that Beem has had with ... (Full article: 853 words)

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