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The head of the European Tour has credited Arnold Palmer for making golf a truly international sport by playing the British Open in the early 1960s.
Palmer, who won golf's oldest major in 1961 and 1962, died Sunday in Pittsburgh at the age of 87. Palmer first played the British Open in 1960, finishing runner-up in an appearance that invigorated a tournament which Americans had been ignoring for years.
European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley says ''without question Arnold's participation in The Open Championship in the early 1960s was the catalyst to truly internationalize golf.