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...money clip crammed with bills, and held it out to Brewer. Brewer chuckled impishly, lined up his putt-a straight-in 15-footer-and missed. It was a fitting climax to pro golf's 1964 season, a wacky eleven months in which a reformed rake named Tony Lema won four tournaments in six incredible weeks; in which Old (35) Master Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masters and still lost the money-winning title to burly Wunderkind Nicklaus, 24-by the margin of Brewer's bungled putt and $81.13 in cash...
...Tony Lema, 30: the World Series of Golf, shooting a two-under-par 138 at the Firestone Country Club in Akron. "Champagne Tony," the British Open winner, fired a last-round 68, coasted to a five-stroke victory and the biggest paycheck in golf: $50,000. It was all "unofficial" as far as the Professional Golfers' Association was concerned, but the victory boosted Lema's 1964 win nings to $122,555 - ranking him ahead of the two top "official" moneywinners, Arnold Palmer ($110,743) and Jack Nicklaus...
...that all anyone had to do was book both Arnie Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to win the big tournaments; one or the other al most always did. Not this year, though.Palmer won the Masters. But who could have figured Ken Venturi to win the U.S. Open? Or Tony Lema to rattle off four victories in six weeks,including the British Open? Or Bobby Nichols to beat them all in theProfessional Golfers Association championship...
...also gave Nichols a shot (along with Palmer, Venturi and Lema) at the biggest bonanza of all: the $50,000 first prize in September's World Series of Golf at Akron, Ohio...
...first day, a cruel wind whipped across the open fairways at 60 m.p.h "I couldn't keep my footing," complained Nicklaus, who at 205 Ibs. is one of golf's best-anchored pros. He three-putted six greens, settled for a 76. Lema, who weighs in at 180 Ibs., shot a one-over-par 73, two strokes off the pace set by Ireland's Christy O'Connor and France's Jean Garaialde, and pronounced himself satisfied. "There is nothing comparable to putting in this wind," he said. "Let me tell you something about golf...