nice easy guy with a nice easy swing .. steady, but never quite ready for the very top .. when he won the British Open i remember thinking .. yes! gooooooo Ian .. but .. lol .. looks it was a common thought .. 1991 .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Baker-Finch
When he won the 1991 British Open at Royal Birkdale, closing with a 64–66 to beat Mike Harwood by two strokes, he was considered a surprise champion. He had three other runner-up finishes that year as well and again qualified for the Tour Championship with a 13th place finish on the money list. He ranked briefly in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking that year.
Baker-Finch's British Open victory might have proved the catalyst for him to move to a higher level and start to regularly challenge for prestigious titles, but...
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”