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Palmer Was Disqualified (NJ!. Press Assn.—Copyright) PEBBLE BEACH (California), January 21. Arnold Palmer was disqualified in the Bing Crosby golf tournament yesterday ending a string of 47 consecutive tournaments in which he has finished in the money. After playing the fourth and final round yesterday, he was dismayed to hear he had to be disqualified for improperly playing. a provisional ball in the third round on Saturday. He had finished with a 293 in the tournament, eight strokes back from the winner, which would have given him 540 dollars, the Associated Press said. A Professional Golf Association spokesman said another player brought up the infraction, but that Palmer readily admitted he should be disqualified when he realised how he had broken the rule. Palmer hit a provisional ball on the seventeenth hole in Saturday’s play when his tee shot wound up in a tide pool on a flat rock. The tournament supervisor. Mr Joe Black, said it should have been called an unplayable lie with no provisional ball allowed. Palmer was last shut out In the 1961 Los Angeles open, when he took a 12 in one hole.
HAGLEY CLUB.—Stableford: W. A. Purdle (11), 39 points; B. T. Gough (10), 37: J. R. Dunstan (9), 38; C. B. Cock* (IS). 36; E. G. Gregor (13), 35.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30036, 22 January 1963, Page 6
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