Word: lema
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Professional golf has always had its share of characters-from the likes of Walter ("The Haig") Hagen, who once showed up for a match still wearing his tuxedo of the evening before (and shot a 67), to "Champagne Tony" Lema, who amused himself by hitting practice drives out of open hotel-room windows. Now there is Doug Sanders, 33, current king of the "Kelloggs," or "flakes," as such characters are known today...
...confirmed, color-coordinated kook. Twice married and twice divorced, he is wildly superstitious, mildy neurotic, engagingly extraverted and outrageously hedonistic. Women? "I'm afraid of dying," he sighs. "That's why I love so hard." Liquor? "I've spilled more," says Sanders, "than Tony Lema swallowed...
...regularly downs elk ($1.49), bear ($2.25), moose ($1.98) and buffalo ($1.89). There must be something in it. Last week Casper was the only man on this year's P.G.A. tour to have cracked $100,000 in official winnings. He thus joined the late Tony Lema, who turned the trick in 1965, Arnold Palmer, who did it in '63 and '64, and Jack Nicklaus...
Died. Tony Lema, 32, a top professional golfer, last year's No. 2 money winner ($101,817) behind Jack Nicklaus, who endeared himself to newsmen and fellow pros as "Champagne Tony" by setting up the bubbly all around after each victory; in the crash of a twin-engined light plane, along with his wife and two pilots; on a golf course near Munster...
...words, he was "just trying to finish second." By the time the fourth round was half over, Arnold Palmer had a seven-stroke lead, and seemed certain to break Ben Hogan's 18-year-old Open record of 276 for 72 holes. Casper, Dave Marr, Tony Lema and Jack Nicklaus were battling for the runner-up purse of $12,500. Then, in one of the most shocking turnabouts in sports history, Palmer blew 1) his lead, 2) his cool and 3) the tournament...