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CINDERELLAS NO MORE Q-School finished as path to PGA Tour BY KATHY BISSELL Since golf has been played, there have been a variety of ways for golfers to gain entry into top professional events. In just the last 50 to 60 years, the system has changed a few times. Arnold Palmer recalled how he made it to the Tour, which at that time, was run by the PGA of America. He had an avenue that opened

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up to him via success as an amateur. “The National Amateur Champion of that current year was exempt from qualifying. So I had that exemption from ‘54 to ‘55,” Palmer explained. “The other thing that was different was that most of the qualifying and the people who were making the Tour — that were not otherwise eligible

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