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It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.
Walter Hagen
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Walter Hagen
Age: 76 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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