Golf: Take That, You People's Choice

What's wrong with Arnold Palmer? Nothing, that's what.

But to see Palmer, fidgety and tense, at the start of last week's Masters, nobody could have guessed it. By his own admission, Arnie was in an awful slump.

True, he won a record $128,230 last year. But that was only money; and with $400,000 a year rolling in from assorted outside businesses, who needs it? Prestige was what Palmer was after, and he was not getting any.

The closest he came to winning a ma jor championship last year was a play off loss to...

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