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10 years later, Greyling looks for a new start

The Columbian
Published: June 14, 2011, 5:00pm

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Had everything gone according to plan, Christo Greyling would be a seasoned veteran at the U.S. Open and every other major by now.

Instead, the one-time prodigy is making his debut on golf’s most imposing stage at age 28.

A career that once looked to have an unlimited future was sidetracked first by a strange illness, then more recently by his father’s suicide. When he steps to the tee box at Congressional Country Club on Thursday, he’ll be looking to redirect a journey that could have been something more by now — hoping there are a weekend’s worth of great swings in his bag, the kind he used to make when he was the nation’s top-ranked junior.

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