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...will not be easy to win any or all of the upcoming tournaments. Golfdom's perennial Big Four?Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Billy Casper?are still potent, and the sport has a host of other aggressive young stars (see box) who in any given week can run off with the big money. Clearly, though, no other golfer is about to match Trevino's record in 1971. At 31, he is in his prime?and is working through the hottest streak of his career. In addition to finishing among the top five money winners in nine...
...barrel staves. Deep valleys and isolated mountainsides that only a few years ago had been as quiet as Coney Island on Ground Hog Day are now echoing with cries of "Track!" ''Attention!'' "Pista!" and "Achtung!" (In many U.S. spots, "track" has been supplanted by golfdom's "fore.'') Spanking new lodges in a variety of architectural forms range from swish chalets to high-wayless motels; ski tows and chair lifts whir upward through clearings in the fir trees, queues of skiers wait patiently in the valleys to take dizzying trips to the peaks, only...
...amateur, he finished the Masters Golf Tournament just a stroke behind golfdom's two top pros...
Billy Joe Patton is the spectacled, spectacular amateur golfer who finished the recent Masters Golf tournament just a stroke behind golfdom's two top pros, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. After the Masters-where he sprayed his tee shots into the woods, then scrambled to some remarkable recoveries-grinning Billy Joe announced: "I hope I can come back next year. If I can nudge it up a little higher, we'll really have ourselves a roaring good time...
...third round that Hogan really took charge. Bantam (139 Ibs.) Ben, playing with chunky (220 Ibs.) Ed Oliver, and often out-hitting him, drew ohs & ahs from a crowd of some 10,000 with his fairway-splitting shots. The ahs changed to outright cheers on the ninth green when golfdom's mechanical man, after careful sighting, crisply stroked a 60-ft. putt into the cup for an outgoing four-under-par 32. The word that went around the Augusta gallery...