8 Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis was playing in his first ever major at Royal St George’s in 2003, and, after finishing his final round, the world number 396 watched from the clubhouse as one after another of the favourites fell by the wayside.
Nick Faldo moved to within one before dropping three shots in the last four holes, Tiger Woods dropped two over the same stretch, Davis Love III dropped one at 17, Vijay Singh threw it away and Thomas Bjorn took three to get out of a bunker on 16.
Despite Curtis dropping four shots over the last seven holes, no-one took advantage and the rookie from Ohio claimed the crown and jumped to 35th in the world.
Curtis did pretty much nothing over the next couple of years, making few cuts before winning two mediocre PGA events in 2006.
At the Open Championship at Turnberry in 2009, in typical fashion, he popped up with a 65 to be second after the first round, only to shoot 80 in round two and miss the cut.
