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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stamina and ability to play in pressure-packed tournaments week after week, ten months of the year. With the 1958 tour two-thirds complete, three of golf's Young Turks hold a long lead in the earnings list: Arnold Palmer, 28, of Latrobe, Pa. ($40,478), Bill Casper, 27, of Chula Vista, Calif. ($38,332), and Venturi, 27, of San Francisco ($37,044). Palmer has finished in the top ten in 13 of 24 tournaments, Casper in twelve of 23, Venturi in 14 of 24. Palmer and Casper have won three tournaments each, Venturi four...
Each has a different strong point to his game. Handsome, thin-lipped Arnold Palmer is one of the game's longest drivers. Brash, freckled Ken Venturi is without peer on long irons. Chubby, affable Bill Casper has the steadiest short game on the tour. There are weaknesses, too. Palmer is a streak player ("It seems I was always blowing up just when I thought my game was under control''). Both he and Venturi are subject to long sieges of putting miseries. Casper tends to scatter his long shots and has a predilection for one bad round...
Fatal Mistake. But through three fine rounds, the tension bothered California's Billy Casper, 26, not at all. He went up to the 17th tee on the final afternoon tied for the lead, matching stroke for stroke with the coolest customer on the course: Canada's balding tournament traveler, Stan Leonard. 42. Then Casper made his only mistake-and it was fatal. He misjudged the wind, chose a two-iron instead of a driver and saw his ball splash short in a water hazard. He shot a double-bogey six. Leonard chipped steadily away at par. When...
Compared to some of the other mink-covered items referred to in your Jan. 13 issue, a mink duster for dusting Cadillacs is really practical. Incidentally, pastel and white mink have for years given an assist to Casper's greenhouses and choicer gardens, so Manhattan's Ferti-Mink [a fertilizer for penthouse plants] isn't so extraordinary...
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