How Arnold Palmer made Fred Couples ‘feel special’
|(CNN)Fred Couples is as synonymous with Augusta National as blooming azaleas, towering pines and green jackets, but one of the silkiest swingers in town is being out-gunned.
The 59-year-old former world No.1 won the Masters in 1992 and still regularly appears high on its traditional white leaderboards in what has virtually become his second home.
With a loose, but powerful action, Couples was known as “Boom boom” in his heyday, but now leans on the experience of 33 appearances in the iconic major, which “makes my whole year.”