"Palmer's 284 Beats Ford and Hawkins by a Stroke in Masters Golf"
Newspaper article
By: Lincoln Werden
Date: April 7, 1958
Source: Werden, Lincoln. "Palmer's 284 Beats Ford and Hawkins by a Stroke in Masters Golf." The New York Times, April 7, 1958, 29.
Introduction
Arnold Palmer was born on September 10, 1929 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a few days before the great stock market crash that year. Latrobe is in the green foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, near Pittsburgh. Palmer's childhood house sat just a few feet from the sixth hole of the Latrobe County Golf Course. Caddying and playing golf at an early age, Palmer learned a great deal from his father, the golf professional at the club. Palmer won a number of Western Pennsylvania amateur championships in high school, and he played collegiate golf at Wake Forest College in North Carolina. After serving in the Coast Guard, Palmer returned to the amateur golf circuit and won the U.S....
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