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On Friday January 6, 1961, the first day of the 35th L.A. Open, Arnold Palmer, voted Golfer of the Year and Professional Athlete of the Year, took a 12 on this hole. After hitting a fine drive, he hit two shots into the driving range and two more onto Patricia Avenue. He hit his sixth shot to the green and two putted. These eight strokes, plus four penalty strokes, added up to 12. Palmer called golf deceptively simple and endlessly complicated, satisfying to the soul and frustrating to the intellect, rewarding and maddening, and without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
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