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Decked out in his everyday-everything uniform, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro canned this short putt, March 30, 1961, on the 6th green of the Villareal Golf Club in Havana, Cuba. Blistered right thumb and all, Castro was undaunted as he tried capitalist sport with his economic expert Ernesto (Che) Guevara and Agrarian Reform Institute chief Antonio Nunez Jimenez, in background. Their 1961 round a month before the Bay of Pigs invasion was the beginning of the end for golf in Cuba — soon the communist government had eliminated the sport from the island almost entirely.