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...pointed out to me that with a very good drive off the tee, say 300 yards, a golfer hits his ball roughly twice as far as anyone has ever hit a baseball...
...hole in one last week, and a day later he did it again. The same hole, the same club, the same unorthodox swing, the same natural grace. Palmer will turn 57 this week, but he remains the mind's eye and the heart's idea of a golfer...
Bouncing back to the winner's circle at a wonderful canter, Shoemaker misted like an old golfer (Shoe is a 12 handicap). "Old Jack Nicklaus did it," he said, "and I did it too. I thought that I might have one more chance to win the Derby. When Charlie showed me this big juicy colt last year, he told me, 'Here's one I'm going to save for you. We might have some fun with him.' " The British beer guzzler Bold Arrangement took a lovely second and hurried away with a foaming head to the 205-year-old "real...
Caddying for him was his oldest son Jackie, 24, himself a golfer of promise, winner of the prestigious North and South Amateur. Barbara and Jack have a daughter and four sons. Increasingly, the children egg their father into joining them at golf, feigning selfish interests but not fooling him. "They want the old man to practice," he says. Corporate setbacks have recently conspired with creaking muscles to limit his time on the courses he builds. It would be an exaggeration to say Jackie had to lead the old man around the National like a blind ward, but just a slight...
...space of four days last week, the country's best and worst golfers were positively identified, although for a time at the U.S. Open it appeared that the two might be the same person. To those who find the Open a shade too diabolical even for golf, the United States Golf Association's Sandy Tatum is fond of saying, "We're not trying to mortify the world's greatest golfer. We're trying to identify him." Twice now they have identified him as Andy North. At Oakland Hills outside Detroit, North won again this year, the same...