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Golf may be tne only sport in the world at which a man can make $20,000 a year in competition and still have nobody but a fanatic recognize his name. Just ask Jack McGowan, Pete Brown and Miller Barber−or, for that matter, Dave Marr. Going into last week's P.G.A. tournament at Ligonier, Pa., Marr was strictly a member of the pack. He won an occasional minor tournament, almost always finished in the money (20 out of 22 times so far this year), modeled sports clothes for Jantzen on the side. He was reliable, comfortable...
...when the difference between a Marr and a Jack Nicklaus is only a couple of strokes every 72 holes, accidents are bound to happen. One happened last week−and it was almost more than Dave could stand. He cried when they gave him a diamond-studded medal and the winner's check of $25,-000. "Some guys expect to win," he said. "But I never knew that I could...
...Houston club pro and a cousin of onetime Masters Champion Jack Burke, Marr, 31, is typical of golf's second-magnitude stars. He started as a caddy, worked his way up to pro-shop flunky, golf-club and software salesman, caddy master and teaching pro before setting out five years ago on the tournament trail. He won $12,066 his first year, was up to $37,142 last year, and got his first real taste of glory when he sank a 30-ft. putt to tie Nicklaus for second place (behind Arnold Palmer) in the 1964 Masters...
...fighting for his second P.G.A. victory. Jack was grousing about his drives, then his approaches went a trifle sour. Even so, going into the final hole, he was still two under par for the tournament, tied with Billy Casper and barely two strokes behind his playing partner, Dave Marr, a journeyman golfer who had not won a tournament since 1962. A birdie for Nicklaus and a bogie for Marr would mean a playoff. Teeing off for the 470 yd. par-four, Marr hooked his drive into a fairway trap, while Nicklaus slammed one 300 yds deadcenter. But after all those...
SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Première of a new series of international golf tournaments. American Dave Marr plays Britain's Bernard Hunt in England...