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SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). First of eleven matches, this one between Tony Lema and Roberto de Vicenzo; from the Glyfada Golf Club in Athens. Color...
...Also on hand was Gary Player, who completed a sweep of his own by winning last month's U.S. Open. In practice, Nicklaus shot a 65, wowed spectators by reaching Royal Birkdale's par-five, 510-yd. 17th hole with a drive and a sand wedge. Tony Lema, the 1964 winner, went Nicklaus one better; he turned his silver trophy over to officials and said cockily: "Put this in safekeeping for me for four days...
...Lema wasn't kidding. As the match got under way, he shot a first-round 68, five-under-par-one-putting seven greens, coolly curling in twisting putts of 20 ft. and 30 ft. for birdies. But by the end of the second day, the field was still so tightly bunched that only six strokes separated the top 22 golfers...
Slip in the Tub. Nerves began to show. Lema moaned about his driving ("I know where to hit the ball, but I can't hit it there") and Nicklaus griped about the greens: "Bumpy, too slow, the worst I've ever seen for a British Open." Player's complaint was a stiff neck, the consequence of trying to do calisthenics in his bathtub. "I can only manage half a backswing," he groaned. Peter Thomson kept quiet-mostly because he had never felt better in his life. For four years, he had been plagued by chronic hay fever...
...Lema has swallowed," Sanders admits. "Einstein said you could get along on four hours of sleep a night. Practically all my life I've tried to prove you can do it on three...