Basically, I have a dumb question from twitter, but figured this would be a good place to dump questions / information…
What is the Puerto Rico Open curse?
Thanks!
If you win the Puerto Rico Open, you never win anything else. It’s a distant cousin of the Madden curse 
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Except now Hovland broke the curse 
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From Golf feed on my iPhone:
“As you can tell from the entirety of this column, some of the best bits of following golf come from the game’s fun, random minutiae, and The Puerto Rico Open Curse certainly falls under that category. What’s the P.R.O.C, you might ask? Basically, since the inception of the Puerto Rico Open as a PGA Tour event in 2008, no tournament winner had gone on to win another event afterwards — except, incredibly, Michael Bradley, who went on to win the Puerto Rico Open again.
It was only a matter of time before this statistical anomaly corrected itself; Tony Finau and Viktor Hovland are two of the best golfers on the planet and each had won the Puerto Rico Open but nothing else. On Sunday, an eight-hour Carribean flight from Puerto Rico, Hovland broke the curse. Is that good news for Finau, Martin Trainer, Chesson Hadley and others? We’ll find out in 2021.“
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I was rooting for Finau - he got close! 2021 will be his year.
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