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Something similar happened to the mid-90's U.S. Opens (golf, not tennis). I'll let you look it up, but it had to do with Ernie Els & Lee Janzen. It didn't hold true, however.
Update: OK, I had to go look it up. Here it is (or was):
1988 Curtis Strange
1989 Curtis Strange
1990 Hale Irwin
1991 Payne Stewart
1992 Tom Kite
1993 Lee Janzen
1994 Ernie Els
1995 Corey Pavin
1996 Steve Jones
1997 Ernie Els
1998 Lee Janzen
1999 Payne Stewart
2000 Tiger Woods ...wait WTF!
See my money was on an older Tom Kite in 1999. But then Payne Stewart had to go and ruin it. But then he dies in a plane crash, and that totally made it OK. That was a sad day.
Anyway anyone picking 59-year old Hale Irwin in 2000 was much more of an idiot than I was for picking a then 49-year old Tom Kite in 1999. But wait, Curtis Strange was only 45 for the 2000 U.S. Open, wouldn't he be a good pick?
OK it was flawed a few years ago... But then again, most of us knew around this time that this guy named Tiger Woods would change things... a LOT.
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