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- ↑ "History". Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ↑ "Palmer shreds Titleholders with 283 win". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). Associated Press. May 30, 1972. p. 7C.
