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“Finally, six under,” his headstone reads, a waggish concluding remembrance and tip of the cap to the immortal crowd of spectators cheering from the fringe of some otherworldly 18th green.
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Patrick O’Shaughnessy, who crafted the golfer’s marker, recalls, too, a scene he engraved on the headstone of an avid but largely unaccomplished angler.
“The guy was a terrible fisherman,” he says, “but he loved fishing, so we did a fishing scene where the hook wasn’t in the fish’s mouth.”
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