gone by then, but the rest of him was still there. at the 16th tee, he turned to the jammed gallery.
“is the water in that fountain any good?” he asked.
palmer was pretty fair in his first three masters: a tie for 10th in the first, in 1955, then a solo 21st, then a tie for seventh. by his fourth, in 1958, he had absorbed enough course knowledge and was ready to go. then there was almost no stopping him. he won four over seven years, in 1958, ’60, ’62 and ’64, broken up by two close calls, a third in ’59 and a tie for second in ’61.
he was also 