The big 21-year-old kid from Georgia waited politely while his opponent for the next day's finals of the 1958 National Amateur golf championship toiled up the steep climb from the 18th hole. "I'm Tommy Aaron, Mr. Coe," he said. "I'm going to play you tomorrow."
Wearily, Coe shook hands and managed his first smile of the day. "Charlie's my name," he said. "You make me feel old calling me mister."
For pencil-thin (6 ft., 140 Ibs.) Charlie Coe, 34, the whole week had been painfully tiring. Trudging over the tough, 6,680-yd. Lake Course at San Francisco's Olympic Club, the Oklahoma oil broker rested...
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