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For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.
Payne Stewart
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Payne Stewart
Age: 42 †
Born: 1957
Born: January 30
Died: 1999
Died: October 25
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