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...with six months still to go on the tour: Tournaments Dollars Won Won 1. Arnold Palmer 5 $85,545 2. Julius Boros 3 63,996 3. Jack Nicklaus 3 62,140 4. Tony Lema 1 60,963 5. Gary Player 1 46,665 6. Dow Finsterwald 1 38,438 7. Gene Littler 0 25,439 8. Tommy Aaron 0 22,734 9. Don January 1 21,089 10. Paul Harney...
...front nine, made mistakes that would make a duffer blush: a smothered drive that carried only 100 yds. off the tee, a No. 5 iron that smacked into a tree and caromed back over his head. Before he finished the round he had dropped to third place, behind Dow Finsterwald and Player. To his caddie, Nat ("Iron Man") Avery, Palmer said sadly: "Well, Iron Man, we lost the tournament there." The caddie shook his head. "We ain't lost nothin', Mr. Arnold," said Iron Man. "We still got eight more holes to play." (Recalled Avery later: "He just...
...time Palmer reached the 16th hole at Augusta last week, his cause finally seemed hopeless: he needed two birdies merely to stay alive for a three-way play-off with Player and Finsterwald. Then, at the 16th green, Palmer got his miracle: he pitched a 50-yd. chip into the cup for a birdie. Keyed up now, he stepped up to a null putt on the 17th -and banged it straight into the hole for his second straight birdie. On the 18th green, both Player and Palmer played cautiously for pars, solemnly shook hands and-the tension broken-began...
...unlucky Dow Finsterwald the match was over quickly: shaken by a wayward drive that injured a spectator on the second hole, he shot a sickly 77. At the end of the front nine, playing superbly, Player led Palmer by three strokes. Then Palmer's putter suddenly got the range-and Player's, just as abruptly, went wild. At the icth hole, Palmer snaked in a downhill 25-footer for a birdie and picked up two strokes when Player's five-footer hung improbably on the lip of the cup. "That was the turning point," admitted Gary later...
Phil Silvers Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Slowest Gun in the West is a sort of 60-minute "Low Noon," with Silvers as Sheriff Fletcher Bissell III, Jack Benny as a desperado named Chicken Finsterwald...