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...golf courses, he lost or disfigured 60 million golf balls, invested more than $110 million in golf equipment and, if he had the cash left, took lessons to improve his game. If he could not afford an average $15 an hour for personal advice from a pro, the addicted duffer got the word anyway - in the nation's newspapers. Season after season, it is dispensed by experts in the sports sections of the daily press...
Teeing-Off Tips. The newspaper lessons peddled by the masters cover much that the duffer knows full well: "If it actually is raining," began one Palmer column, "rule No. 1 is to keep your equipment and your hands as dry as possible. A good idea is to carry a towel." Jack Nicklaus can also belabor the obvious: "Prior to driving, a golfer can save strokes merely by looking down the fairway...
...skillful skier. On snow for the first time, Jacqueline Kennedy found that there's many a slip 'twixt slope and slalom. At Stowe, Vt., with Fellow Tyro Caroline and a watching clutch of Kennedys (John-John, Bobby and his family, Teddy and his wife, and Eunice Shriver), Duffer Jackie took her tumbles in good form. Her instructor, former Olympic Ski Coach Pepi Gabl, said diplomatically: "She was very good, but it's hard to say about a skier's ability the first time...
...course he had played at least 200 times before-and what happened? Nicklaus beat him. Jack did it again in the World Series of Golf, that time for $50,000, the biggest prize in the game. But last week's blow was the hardest of all. Every duffer knows that the Masters is Arnie Palmer's private tournament: in five years, he has won it three times, lost the other two by a total of three strokes. This year he was a 4-1 favorite to become the only golfer ever to win the Masters four times...
...gave golfers something new to discuss. A little-known pro who has never won a major tournament, Duden uses a bent-shafted pendulum putter that he swings between his legs like a croquet mallet, in the same manner once espoused by a Mickey Finn comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot him into the lead over a field that included Palmer, Player, Nicklaus and 152 others...