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...Finsterwald, with a 69 for the first round and a 70 for the second, would have been a stroke ahead of Palmer. But after sinking a second-day putt, he started to take a practice putt on the same green. He was reminded by his playing mate, Billy Casper, that it was illegal-and he thereupon told officials that he had unwittingly broken the same rule the day before. The penalty: two strokes...
...geologists from five competing companies $500 each a month to feed him undercover information. At another company, a switchboard operator intercepted long-distance calls between executives, heard when and where the company planned to buy leases, sold the tips to an outside broker, who grabbed up the leases. In Casper, Wyo., an oil executive quit without turning in his office keys, later was caught fingering through secret maps in another executive's office. The company did not prosecute, but passed around word that made the erring executive as welcome in the industry as Klaus Fuchs at Los Alamos...
...running. Rosburg, who grips a club like a baseball bat, sank a chip shot and 30-ft. putt for successive birdies on the 11th and 12th. But on the final hole he needed to sink a 40-ft. putt to tie. It stopped a foot short, and Bill Casper was the U.S. Open champion...
...only son of a San Diego plasterer, Casper caddied at the San Diego Country Club. He developed his putting touch out of convenience. "I'd practice driving an hour and get tired," he explains, "so I started chipping and putting to rest. I found it was more fun than driving." Unlike many top golfers, he has no desire to practice ("I hate it"). After four years of nominal service in the Navy, during which he spent most of his time developing driving ranges in the San Diego area, Casper hit the professional circuit, picked up his first check...
This year flu forced him to give up golf for two months. Until last week's triumph, he had not played in a month. Casper's putting faltered this spring, but for the Open it was wondrous. In four rounds he took only 115 putts. Said the new champion: "I knew that as soon as the putting came back...