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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...
Though he ranks fifth behind Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus and Julius Boros among pro golf's alltime top-money winners, San Diego's Gene Littler, 36, is so inconspicuous that he has been refused entry at the players' gate. He frankly prefers it that way. "I just like to go out and play my game and be left alone," he says. Littler's game is called Finish in the Money, But Don't Be Greedy. His lifetime earnings total $434,324, most of which has come from finishing second (23 times) or third...
...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...
...Billy Casper . $107,715. .. .4. ...17. ...56,336 Jack Nicklaus . 87,953. . . .1. . . .13. . . . 6,765 Arnold Palmer 79,717. .. .2. .. .17. ... 4,689 Doug Sanders 70,996. . . .2. . . .23. . . . 3,036 Gay Brewer . . 68,015 .... 1 .... 20 .... 3,400 Phil Rcdgers . 65,112. . . .2. . . .23. . . . 2,830 Gene Littler . 61,653 .. .0. . . .20. ... 3,082 R.H. Sikes . . . 61,584. . . .1. . . .24. . . . 2,566 Frank Beard . 59,681. . . .1. . . .25. . . . 2,387 Al Geiberger...