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...Gentleman. He has inherited a fortune ("About 50 or 60 million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem is neurological, and something more. Percy writes: "There ... stands Will Barrett on the edge of a gorge in old Carolina, a talented agreeable wealthy man living in as pleasant...
...other sport demands such politeness of its practitioners, except perhaps golf. And who could get excited enough to shout obscenities on a golf course? Stock car racers don't have to use turn signals, and they're allowed to pass on the left as well as the right. Hockey players are permitted to check opponents without first issuing a caution. In short, the other games men play have rules, but they do not have an ethic of etiquette...
Since he first burst on the scene, a prodigy who won the 1959 U.S. Amateur at 19, Nicklaus, now 40, had won 66 tournaments, including 17 in the great competitions of golfs major tournaments: three U.S. Opens, five Masters, three British Opens, four P.G.A. championships and two U.S. Amateur championships. But he had not won any tournament since July 1978. Last year he slipped to 71st place on the list of P.G.A. money winners after 17 consecutive years in the top four. As recently as a week before Baltusrol, at the Atlanta Golf Classic, he had performed so poorly that...
...broke by three strokes the U.S. Open record he had shared with Lee Trevino*. While a crowd of 25,000 chanted his name, Nicklaus acknowledged: "This is the best of them all." Trevino himself paid moving tribute to the only man ever to win a major golf title in four separate decades: "In my dreams, Jack, you always...
...made an extra $50,000 from Golf Magazine for eclipsing the old mark...