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...four. The second hole was practically a carbon copy of the first:his drive landed behind a tree, his second shot found a trap-and he still got a par. On and on he went, playing as if he had taken lessons from Rube Goldberg-straying down an adjoining fairway on the eighth, bouncing his ball off a tree on the 15th, dumping his drive into loose sod on the 16th. Scores: two pars and a birdie. On the par-three 17th hole, Nichols "squirreled" his No. 2 iron tee shot off to his right and overhit his wedge recovery...
...longest and toughest course any Open has ever been played on-7,053 yds., with greens so irregular that one golfer accused Architect Robert Trent Jones of burying dinosaurs under the undulating turf. The 9th hole is all of 599 yds. long, and its green is separated from the fairway by a deep, grass-choked ravine. "That," said one pro, "is where elephants go to die." In short, the Congressional is a brutal course, even for Palmer, Nicklaus, or Tony Lema, who had just won two tournaments in a row. But when Palmer fired the only sub-par round...
Plodding Along. Palmer did not do badly the next day, either: a one-under-par 69. But that was only good for second place, a stroke off the pace set by a curly-haired Californian named Tommy Jacobs, 29. Only twice all afternoon did Jacobs stray from the fairway; only twice did he fail to reach a green in par figures; and he did not miss a single putt under 12 ft. Jacobs' six-under-par 64 tied for the lowest score ever recorded in a U.S. Open. In all the excitement, who was going to notice Ken Venturi...
...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...
...would you like to be playing against that fellow?" wailed Gary Play er last week, as Jack split the Phoenix Country Club's fairway with...