If there was a single swing that made him “The King,” the driver Arnold Palmer hit on the first hole at Cherry Hills was it. Trailing by seven heading into the final round of the 1960 U.S. Open — and angered by a sports writer who, during a lunch break, told him he had no chance at a comeback — Palmer pulled the persimmon wood out on the tee box of the downhill, 346-yard hole.

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