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S.F. Examiner: Golf world loses Arnold Palmer, ‘The King’
9:47 AMBy Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner
His triumphs, the four Masters, the British Opens, and his sporting tragedies, like blowing a seven-shot lead in the 1966 U.S. Open at San Francisco’s Olympic Club, are the stuff of legend and history.
Yet the most telling statement about the great Arnold Palmer, who died Sunday at 87, was made by one of his fellow golf champions, Curtis Strange.
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