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Although Harvard could not match last year’s result, its finish constitutes the Crimson’s third-straight top-three performance. Going into the final event of the season—this weekend’s Ivy League Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.—Harvard’s consistency bodes well...
...sure, at least five all-white clubs opted to change behavior, including Crooked Stick in Carmel, Ind., which will be host to the 1991 P.G.A. championship next month. But four of those five have admitted one black each, and the fifth, Baltusrol, in Springfield, N.J., has pledged only to comply with the racial rules by its date for playing host to the U.S. Open...
Snobbery and exclusion have long been inseparable from golf. Playing even one round requires the use of expensive equipment, access to landscaped acres of greensward and, for most people, expensive lessons in technique. A caddy is a sort of walk-along valet. At private Baltusrol, new members put up $25,000 as an initiation fee, plus a $5,250 bond and $3,900 yearly dues. In times gone by, those economic facts alone might have barred most blacks. But, just in case, the sport had overtly racist rules and practices. Blacks did not play in the elite Masters tournament...
...lowering afternoon sun, Jack Nicklaus strode up the shadowed fairway toward the 18th green at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club. The crowd began to surge and roar, cheering each step and move of the man who was leading the U.S. Open. It had been a long time since Nicklaus had heard the sound...
...three British Opens, four P.G.A. championships and two U.S. Amateur championships. But he had not won any tournament since July 1978. Last year he slipped to 71st place on the list of P.G.A. money winners after 17 consecutive years in the top four. As recently as a week before Baltusrol, at the Atlanta Golf Classic, he had performed so poorly that he was eliminated after two rounds. With his putts stopping short, his drives wandering into the rough, his irons missing the greens, people were whispering that his championship days were over...