Word: littler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Billy Casper, Gene Littler and Ben Arda compete at the Manila Golf and Country Club in the Philippines...
Yale took the next two matches -- over Danny Foster (5) and Steve Littler (6) -- and led George Vary at the seventh position by one hole with only the last one left to play...
...Foster, Littler, and Vary, rounded out the lineup and only Foster had a winning record. Frank Mahady won two of the three matches he played...
...What would you say the odds were against my being here? A million to one?" Littler asked in Akron last week, as he prepared to tee off in the World Series of Golf. A TV spectacular that carries a top prize of $50,000, the World Series is supposed to match the winners of golfs top four tournaments -the U.S. Open, the Masters, the British Open and the P.G.A. Three of the slots were easy to fill: Billy Casper won the Open, Al Geiberger won the P.G.A., and Jack Nicklaus was the Masters, champion. But Nicklaus also won the British...
True in His Fashion. Littler is nothing if not true to himself. He did his level best to lose the World Series, but it just wasn't enough. On the final day, going into the 625-yd. par-five 16th hole at the Firestone Country Club, he was leading Geiberger by two strokes, Nicklaus and Casper by four. So what did Gene do? He shanked a little pitch shot into a water hazard, took a double bogey, and dropped back into a tie with Nicklaus-who sank a nine-foot putt for a birdie. When Al Geiberger birdied...