As well as bringing back the pre-2000 policy of awarding Masters invites to US Tour winners, Payne has also revived an Augusta tradition last seen in 2002 by persuading Arnold Palmer to serve as an honorary starter this year.
"To them their new Israeli masters were no worse than the pre-war Jordanian administration -- in fact the Israeli police treated them better, " writes Said K. Aburish, a Palestinian biographer of Mr. Arafat.