Word: jacklin
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...Turning Point centers on the bittersweet relationship of Deedee Rodgers (Shirley MacLaine), a one-time aspiring ballerina who gave up the stage for a family, and Emma Jacklin (Bancroft), Deedee's former friend and rival who pursued a career in dance to rise to the top of her profession as the prima ballerina of the best ballet company in the States. They reunite after a long spell of separation when Emma's touring company hits Oklahoma City, where Deedee, the frustrated dancer, spends her middle-aged, middle-American existence raising her three kids and running a ballet school with...
...Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, Casper, Trevino--had bypassed the Pleasant Valley Classic, either because they thought the course's super-narrow fairways were an unfair test or because they wanted to tune their games for the up-coming PGA Championship. Johnny Miller, former U.S. Open and British Open Champion Tony Jacklin, and tour veteran Grier Jones had withdrawn from the tournament for a variety of dissimilar reasons, while such stars as Bert Yancey, Frank Beard and Bob Goalby had failed to make the 36-hole cut of 148 (six over par on the 7305-yard, par 71 Pleasant Valley course). Even...
...came incredibly close in what was likely the most dramatic finish in golf history. Nicklaus went into the closing round on Scotland's sun-sluiced Muirfield course a full six strokes behind Defending Champion Trevino and five behind Britain's dogged Tony Jacklin. Trevino had blistered the parched fairways at the finish of the third round with birdies on the final five holes for a 66, which tied the course record and put him one stroke ahead of Jacklin. Nicklaus, playing what was for him desultory golf, needed birdies on two of the final three holes merely...
...final round was something else again. Nicklaus birdied six of the first eleven holes, while Trevino and Jacklin played fitful golf. By the ninth hole big Jack had caught the leaders. But on the 17th Trevino pulled off a spectacular shot. Perched on an awkward angle off the green, Trevino lofted a 30-ft. chip that rolled into the cup to save a par. Nicklaus had bogeyed the 16th, Jacklin bogeyed both of the final holes, and the Merry Mexican, crying, "I'm the greatest chipper in the world!", became the first golfer since Arnold Palmer...
...galleries at last week's British Open learned anything, it was: Don't mess with Supermex, otherwise known as Lee Trevino. Teamed with Britain's own Tony Jacklin in the third round, the gritty little Texan reacted to the crowd's partisan booing with typical machismo: "That only makes me fight harder." Fight he did. Scrambling as he had been doing all week, he started off the final round with four birdies on the first nine holes to take a seemingly insurmountable five-stroke lead. Then, on the treacherous 17th hole on the rolling moonscape of the Royal Birkdale Golf...