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Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

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Arnold Palmer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1929
Born: September 10
Died: 2016
Died: September 25
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Arnold Daniel Palmer
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