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Cauley (67) in the hunt at Muirfield one year after car accident

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DUBLIN, Ohio – Bud Cauley doesn’t remember a big chunk of his last trip to central Ohio.

It was at last year’s Memorial Tournament that Cauley went from the tee sheet to a hospital room, suffering six broken ribs and a punctured lung in a car accident just around the corner from Muirfield Village Golf Club. Hours after missing the cut, the vehicle he was riding in veered off the road, hit a tree and flipped into a bank. He didn’t pick up a club for more than three months, and he didn’t play another PGA Tour event until October.