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...that, millions of minds must have leaped 1,000 miles south and two days backward, to where and when Tiger Woods strode up the 18th fairway at Augusta National. It would have been thrilling enough that a 21-year-old had won the Masters or that any golfer had outstripped his competition by 12 strokes, the largest margin of victory in a major tournament in this century. Neither reality seemed as significant, though, as the color of his skin, because almost 50 years to the day that Robinson integrated baseball, Woods became the first nonwhite victor of what was once...
...have become routine for Woods. Those who stayed with Palmer witnessed something far more singular. His round came just nine weeks after he underwent surgery for prostate cancer, and Arnie's brush with mortality served to remind people of his immortality. As he walked up the 18th fairway, the eyes in the gallery were as misty, and the applause as thunderous, as the weather in Orlando, Florida, last week. "I felt wonderful," said Palmer. "I feel very lucky just to be out there playing. That's the important thing about it. I even made [38-year-old playing partner] Fulton...
RICHARD NIXON Nixon struggled to get his handicap down to 14, but he was never a fanatic about the rules. Sam Snead recalled once playing with the President when Nixon's ball flew into a thicket. Moments later, Snead saw the ball arc onto the fairway. "I knew he threw it out," wrote Snead, but "what could...
BORN: June 23, 1924, Newark, N.J. EDUCATION: New York U, B.S., 1947, M.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1953 FAMILY: Wife, Alice Pressman; two children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: Army Air Corps, 1942-44 OCCUPATION: University administrator; professor; author POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Oneonta, N.Y., city council, 1958 ADDRESS: 7127 Fairway Bend Lane, Sarasota...
...Radtke these things are lucky ball markers, calcium supplements and, last year, a pair of lucky pants. Radtke also refrains from leaving his bag farther down the fairway when he tees off, as taking only one club and one ball would place unwanted pressure on him for hitting the ball in play...