Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANNE RIGGS OSBORNE Augusta...
...Return on equity was a solid 13.6%. And with operations outgrowing its main store and five branches, Rich's is about to undertake a ten-year $115 million building program, in which it will enlarge three branches, build four more and open for business in Macon and Augusta...
...game. I don't have that complex any more. I play offensive golf. I think positively." Tuning up for the Masters, Gay had won the Pensacola Open for the second year in a row-impressively this time, firing a record 61 in the third round. But at Augusta the oddsmakers gave Brewer no better than a 10-to-l chance of beating the "Big Three"-Nicklaus, Palmer and Player-who among them had won seven straight Masters...
...oddest Masters in years. Complaining that the grass on Augusta's fairways was too high. Player shot a first-round 75 and never got back into contention. Palmer had all kinds of trouble with his putter and the par-five 13th hole. And Nicklaus? Playing like any duffer, he staggered through a second-round 79, missed the 36-hole cut, and joined the spectators-staying around the last two days only to perform the formality of helping the new champion into his winner's blazer...
...took at Pensacola last week. Dey complains that the rash of low scores in P.G.A. tournaments "cheapens the concept of par." Both he and Jones insist that fans prefer to watch a golfer battle the hazards of a tough, demanding course-such as Georgia's 6,980-yd. Augusta National, site of this week's Masters tournament. "Galleries aren't attracted by low scores," says Architect Jones. "What they want to see are great golf shots." He speaks with authority. Something like 40,000 fans will attend the Masters, millions more will watch...