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Members of Team USA celebrate with the Ryder Cup Trophy after beating Team Europe 14.5 - 13.5 to win the 1983 Ryder Cup matches at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States on 16th October 1983. The US team members are: back row from left, Craig Stadler, Jay Haas, Gil Morgan, Bob Gilder, non-playing captain Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd, Curtis Strange and Fuzzy Zoeller; front row, from left: Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, Calvin Peete and Lanny Wadkins. (Photo by Brian Morgan/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Members of Team USA celebrate with the Ryder Cup Trophy after beating Team Europe 14.5 - 13.5 to win the 1983 Ryder Cup matches at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States on 16th October 1983. The US team members are: back row from left, Craig Stadler, Jay Haas, Gil Morgan, Bob Gilder, non-playing captain Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd, Curtis Strange and Fuzzy Zoeller; front row, from left: Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, Calvin Peete and Lanny Wadkins. (Photo by Brian Morgan/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

BEN CRENSHAW MET TOM KITE in Austin, Texas, when they were kids in the early 1960s.