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| | Sport | First cut is deepest for seven champs |
 | | Ben Curtis, last year's champion, was among the first of the former winners to acknowledge his fate after a three-over-par 74 left him seven over, three shots outside the cut. |
 | | Golf does not embrace unlikely winners in the manner of other sports, preferring its champions to be genuinely worthy, and nothing the American has done in the year since he stunned the game by winning at Royal St George's has dispelled the suspicion that he got lucky. |
 | | Greg Norman, champion in 1986 and 1993, at least had the means to get out rapidly after signing for a 76 to finish seven over, the first time he has missed the cut in an Open since 1980. |
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