A chance meeting with King that Gore won't forget

Walk up the back stairs of the clubhouse at Bay Hill Lodge toward the office of Arnold Palmer and it is hard to miss the many photos of two of golf's most charismatic figures _ Palmer and Tiger Woods.

Woods is a six-time winner at Bay Hill _ five times in what now is called the Arnold Palmer Invitational, once in 1991 when he captured the first of three straight U.S. Junior Amateur titles.

Too bad there are no pictures of The King and The Prince.

That would be Jason Gore, still known in some parts as the "Prince of Pinehurst" for his unlikely journey to the final group of the U.S. Open in 2005 before he staggered home to an 84.

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