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7.4.17

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Arnold Palmer: Robert Dear/Associated Press; Bubba Watson: Robert Laberge/Getty Images
The Void at This Year’s Masters
The Masters golf tournament is this week – in case you fast-forwarded through the rhapsodic promos during CBS’s coverage of the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament and somehow weren’t aware – and for the first time since 1954, Arnold Palmer will not be a part of the proceedings. Palmer played 150 rounds at the Masters and was a four-time champion. For 62 years, he cast as large a shadow on the grounds as the stately oak tree near the clubhouse. His death last September at age 87 left golf to carry on without its first and all-time favorite 

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