Newsday (N.Y.): Elephant man Todd Hamilton returns to British Open

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

TROON, Scotland — Todd Hamilton won the 2004 British Open here, but it was an elephant that became the story.

Back then nobody really knew much about Hamilton except that he was from the Illinois town where a circus elephant named Norma Jean was hit by a bolt of lightning and buried in the city square.

Read the full story here.