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...eased off. I didn't want to go over, and I left myself short about 30 ft. I couldn't see the cup because of a roll in the green, so I had the pin left in. I bounced it off the pin and dropped the second putt...
...checked the pin position on the 17th green when I was playing 15. I hit my tee shot as long as possible. I hit my second so it would carry over the trap but hold up before it skidded past the hole. I left myself a 25-ft. putt, uphill. I had to hit it hard to go in for a birdie...
...tough shot. He kept saying to me: 'Just take it back slow and it will come off. Slow and deliberate.' The six-iron hit to the right of the pin, spun around and almost hit the cup. It was six feet from the hole. I was lining up the putt, trying to get a few breaths of fresh air?like I was spending a nice day in the country. The putt dropped for my winning birdie...
...believe us," he recalls, adding with a slightly acid touch: "And I was putting them all out that day, toe." Palmer also fell into the habit of acting out a dream of the future by describing his play aloud to an empty green: "Arnold Palmer now lines up a putt on the 36th hole. He pauses. The gallery is quiet. He hits it and it's in. Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is the new U.S. Amateur champion...
When he was discharged in 1954, Palmer went for the big time in the U.S. Amateur. Playing in the finals against onetime British Amateur Champion Bob Sweeny, Palmer rolled a soft, putt dead just three inches from the pin on the 36th green for the shot that won the match. At long last, the childhood fancy was fact: the announcers were saying that Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pa. was the new U.S. Amateur champion...