Andy Dillard and the 1992 U.S. Open

Andy Dillard and the 1992 U.S. Open

Author: GOLF.com June 12, 2017 Duration: 38:42
The 1992 U.S. Open ended with Tom Kite winning his first and only major, but it began strangely with Andy Dillard setting a U.S. Open record that will almost certainly never be broken. As we came to find out in his fateful story, he needed that record more than anything else in his life.

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