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...OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). America's most prestigious golf tourney, live from Springfield, N.J.'s Baltusrol Golf Club. Billy Casper, the 1966 winner, defends against 149 challengers-including at least six former Open champions. Final round at 5 p.m. on Sunday...
...HOPE DESERT CLASSIC GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Among the pros: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Billy Casper. Among the celebrities: Ray Bolger, Joey Bishop, James Garner, Andy Williams, Harry James. The place: Bermuda Dunes Country Club, Palm Springs, Calif. (Finals at La Quinta Country Club will be broadcast Sunday...
...intends to complete a "grand slam" in 1967 by winning all four top tournaments-the Masters, P.G.A., U.S. and British Opens. He has won them all before, but not in one year. Next, he is out to regain the money-winning title he lost last year to Billy Casper: $121,945 to $111,419. Nicklaus insisted that the amount of money a golfer earns does not prove anything about how good he is-"but if the public thinks it does, well, that...
...pitching on. Then he got bored. On the 535-yd. eleventh hole, Jack swung mightily for the pin. The ball missed the pond all right-but wound up instead in a bunker off the green. That cost him a stroke and the tournament lead: one stroke behind Billy Casper, tied with Arnold Palmer. "Pure Fun." Back to Pebble Beach for the last round went Casper, Nicklaus and Palmer, the three top money winners of 1966-and for that matter of all time (total earnings: $1,875,759). Now was Jack's chance to show everybody who was really...
...true to himself. He did his level best to lose the World Series, but it just wasn't enough. On the final day, going into the 625-yd. par-five 16th hole at the Firestone Country Club, he was leading Geiberger by two strokes, Nicklaus and Casper by four. So what did Gene do? He shanked a little pitch shot into a water hazard, took a double bogey, and dropped back into a tie with Nicklaus-who sank a nine-foot putt for a birdie. When Al Geiberger birdied the par-four, 465-yd. 18th, the match wound...