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Leonard Kamsler, a photojournalist whose award-winning pictures of professional golf for nearly 50 years pushed the envelope of sports strobe photography as he amassed a trove of more than 200,000 images on the PGA Tour, died on Nov. 18 in Bethel, N.Y. He was 85.
His husband and only immediate survivor, Stephen Lyles, said the cause was organ failure. Mr. Kamsler had homes in Bethel and Manhattan.
Jim Richerson, president of the PGA of America, called Mr. Kamsler “the undisputed dean of golf photography.” Last month, Mr. Kamsler became the first recipient of the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Photojournalism.