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KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Gary Planos, who started out as a bag boy at Kapalua and became a favorite tournament host among PGA Tour players when he ran the Tournament of Champions, has died. He was 62.
Kapalua officials said Planos was found Saturday morning in the home where he lived the last 25 years. No cause of death was given.
PGA Tour players, such as Rickie Fowler and Billy Horschel, paid tribute on Twitter by referring to Planos as "Mr. Kapalua."
Planos, an Evans Scholar at Illinois who later became a director for the Chicago-based Western Golf Association, moved to Maui in the mid-1970s and worked in the bag room at the Bay Course at Kapalua, earning $3 an hour with playing privileges.
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