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Change comes slowly to the Masters tournament. The course at the Augusta National Golf Club has altered little since it was built in 1932, yet it is as demanding in this day of space-age metal clubs as it was in the hickory-shaft past. Even without the blooming azaleas and dogwood that provide what may be the most beautiful setting in all of sport, the Masters would be unequaled as a place to take the measure of the game's old champions and new challengers. It is the only one of golfs Grand Slam foursome annually contested over...
Laboring in Nicklaus' formidable shadow, Watson has been quietly etching his way into the record books. In each of the past three years, he has been the top money winner in golf, named Player of the Year by the PGA, and awarded the Vardon Trophy for the lowest stroke average on the PGA tour, a feat no other player has accomplished for even two consecutive years. Says 1978 PGA Championship Winner John Mahaffey: "Tom has become the man to beat...
Watson became that man the slow way, working up through the ranks during golfs boom era. The son of a wealthy Kansas City insurance broker, Watson decided to make golf his career before he graduated from Stanford in 1971. By then the PGA had established a qualifying school in which the pros have to survive a hair-raising Shootout before earning the right to compete on the tour. After that they become "rabbits," harried journeymen who must scramble through early morning rounds to qualify for each individual tournament. Freedom from this grind is granted only to those...
...Golf at Princeton, Yale (Springdale...
With a new coach and a nucleus of four experienced players, the Harvard golf team will tee off against seven schools in the next week, a flurry that may determine if the squad can repeat as Greater Boston champions...