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Anne Quast Sander recalls first meeting JoAnne Gunderson Carner in their early teens, shortly before they were set to square off in the 1952 Washington State Girls’ Junior Championship. As Quast worked on her putting stroke, Gunderson called out from across the green, “What are you practicing for? Afraid I’m gonna beat ya?”

“JoAnne was 13 and I was 14, and that’s been our relationship forever,” said Sander, now 87, as she sat in a ballroom at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle in late February. “She’s just a character, always has been. There’s only

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