Ben Curtis: the 500-1 winner of Open who was happy to stop playing golf | Ewan Murray

American was a 500-1 shot to win the last time the major was at Royal St George’s and is able to shrug off perception of being an unsatisfactory winner

As the 149th Open Championship rumbles towards its Sunday conclusion, Ben Curtis will be staging a charity brunch in a quiet corner of Ohio. Sixty guests will learn what it is like to win a Royal St George’s Open from the man who did that in 2003. Yet it seems a harsh reality that Curtis could walk outside the ropes in Kent this week without the majority of fellow gallery members knowing who he was. The American, who is 44, stopped playing competitively in 2017.

“I’m at peace with it,” he says. “I still watch occasionally. There were multiple things but I was just tired of being away from family. When they are young they can travel, but that becomes very difficult as they get into school.

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