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For Oppenheim, 35, long journey finally produces PGA Tour card

Then there are those times when the success story doesn’t revolve around a junior phenom or a face who has won at every step of the way. It rides into view not at a dizzying speed but a methodical pace, and is built upon not so much an abundance of confidence but an ability to brush aside self-doubt.

You marvel at the young golfers’ accomplishments that ring the registers for millions. But meet a young man whose story was enriched by a mere $101.

That was the margin by which Rob Oppenheim earned a promotion to the PGA Tour after 13 years of toiling far beneath the professional golf radar.