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Ken Venturi: Years
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Ken Venturi tapped his ball firmly. Unerringly it rolled across the green, plunked into the cup 65 ft. away. A roar went up from the gallery at the Gleneagles Country Club in suburban Chicago. The putt gave Venturi a birdie 3 for the 69th hole, and an eventual one-stroke victory in the Chicago Open. Pocketing $9,000 in prize money, Venturi added another chapter to golf's big story of 1958: the coming of age of a new group of young golfers who promise to dominate the game for years to come.
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Ken Venturi started playing golf because he couldn't talk the way he wanted. He wound up talking about golf because he couldn't play the way he wanted. Sunday, the 71-year-old leaves the CBS booth after 32 years, the longest-running lead analyst in the history of sports on television, a remarkable second career considering he stuttered as a youngster.
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Venturi was born in San Francisco, California. Venturi first gained national attention in 1956 when, as an amateur, he finished second in that year's Masters after leading from the first round. He shot a final round 80 and blew a four shot lead which prevented him from winning outright and ... becoming the first amateur to do so in the history of The Masters. Years later it would be compared to Greg Norman's back nine collapse in 1996.
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Just one year later, Ken has been given a clean bill of health and hits golf balls daily, enjoying the desert landscape he and Kathleen love. For most people, coming back from a five-way bypass would be a once-in-a-lifetime event. For Ken Venturi, it was just another comeback.
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Mr. Venturi has been a golf analyst and journalist for CBS for 32 years and will retire from that position later this year. He is the longest-serving golf analyst on television and an acknowledged master of his craft.
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[C]ould it be that Venturi is still bitter after all these years about the acclaim and adoration Arnie has received - acclaim and adoration Venturi believes should rightfully have gone to him? Arnie had not yet taken the sport by storm when Venturi, still an amateur, finished second by one shot to Jack Burke Jr. in the 1956 Masters.
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