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First hemp permit holder now just needs some seed ... Beloved advocate dies unexpectedly in Caribbean ... Kitzhaber had planned to quit ... First hemp permit holder now just needs some seed ... Beloved advocate dies unexpectedly in Caribbean ... GOLF Casper was one of golf's least-known legends Comment By Los Angeles Times MailTribune.com By Los Angeles Times Posted Feb. 10, 2015 @ 2:00 am By Los Angeles Times Posted Feb. 10, 2015 @ 2:00 am » Social News When Billy Casper decided in 1955 to make his living in golf, a veteran of the PGA Tour sized him up mercilessly. “Why doesn’t he go out and get a nice job selling insurance?” the grizzled pro asked. Casper, renowned for his putting, went on to become one of the most accomplished golfers in the sport’s history. He won 51 PGA tournaments, two U.S. Opens and a Masters. Yet he remained one of the sport’s least-known legends. “Quietly, neatly, gradually, like a pool hustler running the table and calmly leaving with everyone’s money, Billy Casper’s glide through golf history was too subtle and too stoic to be properly appreciated,” golf journalist Jaime Diaz wrote in 1996. “The truth is, the public probably had less idea who Billy Casper was than any great golfer of the second half of the century. He is arguably the best golfer who never got his due.” Casper died of a heart attack Saturday at his home outside Salt Lake City. He was 83. Casper was a colorful figure but never had the star power of his chief competitors. In the early 1960s, agent Mark McCormack dubbed his key golf clients — Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player — “the Big Three.” With McCormack’s marketing help, their publicity skyrocketed. Casper, too, had been a client of McCormack’s. In what he later described as a “What was I thinking?” decision, he left the thriving agency not long before the trio’s ascendancy. Every year from 1956 to 1971, Casper won at least one tournament. He played on eight consecutive Ryder Cup teams. He was the PGA’s Player of the Year twice, and won events on the organization’s seniors tour nine times. Yet even the World Golf Hall of Fame, which inducted Casper in 1978, noted his relative obscurity as a top-drawer golfer. “At the peak of his powers,” the group said, “Casper got more attention for his allergies, his conversion to Mormonism, his 11 children (six of them adopted) and his offbeat diet of buffalo meat and organically grown vegetables.” Casper battled his diagnosed allergies to petrochemicals and other substances with entrees of buffalo, bear and even hippopotamus. (He told Golf Digest it was watery.) He also dropped from 227 pounds to about 165. In 1966, he and his wife, Shirley, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Shirley had been drawn to the faith when Casper competed in the 1959 Utah Open. Born June 24, 1931, in San Diego, William Earl Casper Jr. first played golf when he was 4, on a few rough holes his father built on the family farm near Silver City, N.M. After his parents moved back to San Diego, he started to caddie at the San Diego Country Club. At 15, he experienced a kind of enlightenment when he saw Ben Hogan alone in the twilight, intensely scrutinizing his shots as he prepared for an upcoming exhibition. “Ben Hogan was the reason I did a lot of things in golf the way I did them,” he said in his 2012 memoir, “The Big Three and Me,” written by James Parkinson and Lee Benson. “He was like a pool player, always setting up the next shot with the current one,” Casper wrote. Casper played golf at Notre Dame. During the Korean War, he enlisted in the Navy and played on a stateside Navy golf team. Marrying at 21, Casper soon had to provide for a growing family. “I thought about golf in financial terms,” he later said. “I never got caught up in playing for history, seeing how many majors I could win, or rewriting the record books.” But to his most serious competitors, he was a daunting talent. In their foreword to Casper’s book, Palmer, Nicklaus and Player called him “one of golf’s all-time greats, whether widely heralded or not.” By Los Angeles Times MailTribune.com By Los Angeles Times Posted Feb. 10, 2015 @ 2:00 am » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. fantasy football Fantasy Football Outlook for Jets Stars Feb. 7, 2015 at 4:30 am Super Bowl Fantasy Review and Highlights Feb. 2, 2015 at 10:00 am Top Fantasy Players, Projections for Patriots vs. Seahawks Jan. 31, 2015 at 8:39 am Fantasy Football Outlook for Titans Stars Jan. 30, 2015 at 10:37 am 2015 Fantasy Football Outlook for Buccaneers Stars Jan. 28, 2015 at 7:00 am DraftKings Fantasy Pro Bowl, Super Bowl Lineup Jan. 24, 2015 at 11:37 am calendar Connect with MailTribune.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services Home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Announcements Obituaries Story ideas Since you asked Alerts Email Alerts RSS Feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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