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Arnold Palmer is recognized as the master of golf's trouble shots, a man renowned for hitting the ball into woods and weeds and then successfully smashing it out again. In a three-part series that ranks as a distinctive sequel to his book My Game and Yours (SI, July 15, 1963 et seq.), Palmer discusses his philosophy of trouble shots and shows—with photographs and diagrams—how to hit the most common ones.
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Arnold Palmer is recognized as the master of golf's trouble shots, a man renowned for hitting the ball into woods and weeds and then successfully smashing it out again. In a three-part series that ranks as a distinctive sequel to his book My Game and Yours (SI, July 15, 1963 et seq.), Palmer discusses his philosophy of trouble shots and shows—with photographs and diagrams—how to hit the most common ones.

A trying trek, with hilarious asides, takes Writer Alice Higgins through the red rock and purple sage of Utah's 250,000-acre Canyonlands, the newest national park in the U.S.

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