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Player profile: Jim Furyk

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:04 PM In a stellar 19-year career as a professional, Jim Furyk has managed to maintain a level of consistency few others have matched with one of the most unusual swings in the game. What he lacks in elegance, though, he makes up for in talent, as his enviable PGA Tour record shows. Coached as a youngster by his father Mike - an assistant pro at several clubs - he became Pennsylvania state champion as an amateur and joined the professional ranks in 1992. Such was his consistency on the tour, Furyk claimed at least one tournament victory each year between 1998 and 2003, the second best streak of winning seasons at the time behind Tiger Woods. The Grinders crowning achievement came at the 2003 U..
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