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Golfer wins $1.2 million in tournament he played due only to clerical error

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Golf, man. It is the strangest sport in the world. Imagine a team that wasn't even supposed to be in the NBA or NFL playoffs going on to win a first-round series. That would pretty much never happen, right? It happened on the PGA Tour this week as Rod Pampling took home the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at 20 under.

Pampling was not supposed to be part of the 156-golfer field because the field was not supposed to consist of 156 golfers.