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...players looked as though they were dancing the Tahitian hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema huddled against his caddy for protection from the pelting rain, and Amateur Robert Hoag was almost blown over backwards by a gust of wind as he addressed his ball for a drive...
...against a repeat victory must be 1,000 to 1," he told reporters. Actually, they were nowhere near that bad: 15 to 1. Jack Nicklaus, 1964's top money winner (at $113,284) was sitting this one out. Of course, that still left Ken Venturi, Billy Casper, Tony Lema-and Arnold Palmer, who shot a 66 in practice and happily allowed as how he was playing "pretty good, I guess." The odds on Arnie...
...middle irons, Ken Venturi for the short irons, Billy Casper for putting. The palm for fairway woods went to South Africa's Gary Player-which is a little like naming Australia's Roy Emerson to an All-America tennis team because he won the Davis Cup. Tony Lema took the pitching-wedge award, although he left his wedge in the bag and did most of his pitching with a No. 7 iron when he won the British Open...
...Nicklaus, $113,203.37 for Palmer.-Yet for Nicklaus, playing his third season as a pro, 1964 was full of disappointments. True, he won four tournaments. But he failed to win a major championship, though he finished second three times-to Palmer in the Masters, to Lema in the British Ooen to Nichols in the P.G.A...
...next three: Billy Casper, $90,65308-Tony Lema, $74,130.37; Bobby Nichols...