CALVIN PEETE, A BLACK MAN with a crooked left arm, hit the golf ball straighter than any PGA Tour player of his generation. Peete died on Wednesday in Atlanta. He was 71.
The son of a vegetable picker, Peete didn't try golf until he was 23. He didn't turn professional until the age of 32.
Three days from his 36th birthday, Peete won the 1979 Greater Milwaukee Open by five strokes. He went on to 11 more PGA Tour victories, including four titles in the 1982 season.
Peete was the second African American to play in the Masters.