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...AUGUSTA, ME.--On the eve of the fifth major straw poll of the 1984 Presidential election, three contenders for the Democratic nomination yesterday canvassed Maine state delegates for last minute votes...
Then, when the eminent Americans forcibly pressed Augusta National for birdies, the rolling course fitfully responded with bogeys. Unwittingly, Texans Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite overtook them all to finish second, four shots behind Ballesteros. "Play the course," the winner had counseled himself, "and be cool." Asked how his second Masters victory compared with the first, Ballesteros said, "I tell you, they are both very sweet. But the first is always the best, like when you marry the first time." He is a bachelor...
...swing of his brother Manuel, 34, and practiced "on the beach from the age of nine, on the golf course since 15" in Santander, Spain. At 16, Seve turned professional, a handsome boy with a wild talent. His early dedication extended to playing late after dark, an advantage at Augusta this year when a day and a half of rain kept the golfers out past dusk on Saturday, trying to complete the second round in hopes of cramming the last 36 holes into a marathon Sunday. To Arnold Palmer's relief, they did not quite make...
Spain's Severiano Ballesteros shot a three under-par 69 to win the Masters golf tournament in Augusta. Ga. Ballesteros had a four-day total...
...once, he called for a dew sweeper's teetime at Ballybunion Golf Club and asked the pro to keep it quiet. When Watson arrived, 3,000 Irishmen were waiting. "I just miss the beauty of an empty golf course," says Watson, who can rhapsodize about the fragrance of Augusta when the sun goes down, or the sound at Cypress Point when the wind comes up. "I hear people wishing golfers would be more flamboyant, but I don't intend to be," he says, almost flamboyantly. "I don't want people to know a certain private side...