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DUBLIN, Ohio — One thousand people paid $5 in early 1982 to attend a United Way golf fund-raiser that included a two-hole exhibition between a 6-year-old Tiger Woods and a 69-year-old Sam Snead, who had notched the last of his career record PGA Tour victories nearly 17 years before.
One of those in attendance was David New, whose mother, Kathryn, in her role as the event’s organizer, first brought together the pair that history may never part.
New, who served as Snead’s driver and unofficial escort that day, recalled asking Snead afterward what he thought of Woods.