Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Challenge Golf (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Jerry Barber and Cary Middlecoff challenge Arnold Palmer and Gary Player...
...months ahead, Britannia could conceivably even retreat into isolation. Her history, talents and interests suggest, on the contrary, that she will find new worlds to win. "In the past," Arnold Toynbee wrote in Encounter, "the English have avoided the awful mistake of crying over spilt milk. They have quickly found and milked new cows. They stopped grieving over their defeat in the Hundred Years' War in the exhilaration of discovering and colonizing a New World. They stopped grieving over the loss of the 13 American colonies in the exhilaration of making the Industrial Revolution and acquiring a new Empire...
...trend is the other way, with TV cameras peering over the shoulder or sighting the roll of a green with nearly every pro who ever endorsed a set of woods. This week ABC begins a new series called Challenge Golf. The resident stars are Gary Player and Arnold Palmer, who as a best-ball team will take on various comers in a complicated 13-match series that will eventually chip to bits a $156,000 prize fund. Between strokes, Palmer himself will supply the commentary. Rough, greens, tees and fairways will be strewn with tiny microphones to pick...
...money-money-but-no-prestige ones, such as the Buick Open ($52,000) and Palm Springs' Golf Classic ($50,000). It has even created some of the latter, threatening to throw the whole golfing profession off its economic balance. In September NBC collected Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer into something called World Series of Golf. Nicklaus had won $15,000 taking the U.S. Open. For becoming TV's champion...
...Angeles Open, first event on the winter pro tour, is hardly the ultimate test of golf. But it does have $50,000 in prize money, and until last week, it enjoyed a certain notoriety as one of the only two major U.S. tournaments that Arnold Palmer has never won (the other: the P.G.A. Three-time Masters cham pion, winner of the U.S. and British Opens and of more money in one year ($81,448 last season) than any other golfer in history, Palmer had played in the tournament seven times, had never finished better than tenth...