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...have become routine for Woods. Those who stayed with Palmer witnessed something far more singular. His round came just nine weeks after he underwent surgery for prostate cancer, and Arnie's brush with mortality served to remind people of his immortality. As he walked up the 18th fairway, the eyes in the gallery were as misty, and the applause as thunderous, as the weather in Orlando, Florida, last week. "I felt wonderful," said Palmer. "I feel very lucky just to be out there playing. That's the important thing about it. I even made [38-year-old playing partner] Fulton...
Much more than coincidence links Palmer and Woods. They both live in the Orlando area, and, thanks to Mark McCormack's International Management Group, they are both richer than Croesus and maybe even Jack Nicklaus. They play with the same swashbuckling style. Woods was all over the course on Thursday, but as he said, "I got the ball in the hole somehow." Palmer's round came apart after he tried to hit the ninth green in two from a bad lie and pulled the ball out of bounds, leading to a triple bogey. "If I play in a tournament," says...
...there have been four popular bookmarks: Francis Ouimet, the 20-year-old amateur who defeated British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff for the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger and more variegated...
...Palmer and Woods have been well aware of each other for years, but the first time they really sat down was in 1994, when Woods was at Stanford University. Palmer was in Napa, California, for a senior tournament, and he invited Woods to lunch. The meal became something of a cause celebre when it was revealed that the millionaire had picked up the tab for the student. Stanford, fearing the NCAA would strip its star golfer of his amateur status, made Woods send Palmer a check for his half of the tab: $25. Story has it that Palmer kept...
...inspiring victory at the Mercedes Championships and a rare show of petulance after an inconsiderate photographer disturbed his concentration. The snit was perfectly understandable given his age and the demands newly placed on him--demands that can't be kept behind gallery ropes, demands that not even Palmer has faced. Woods, after all, carries the hope of both African and Asian Americans, not to mention Nike, and he must deal with much more media than Palmer ever did. And those demands will only increase as his tour proceeds back through golf history, from Palmer's Bay Hill to the Masters...