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DIED. CARY MIDDLECOFF, 77, dentist who traded in his drill to become a top golfer and the leading money earner on the PGA Tour in the 1950s; in Memphis, Tenn. Middlecoff won 40 professional tournaments in his prime playing years, including two U.S. Opens and the Masters...
...full set of woods and irons) than steel, aluminum-shafted clubs have received impressive testimonials from the pros. Arnold Palmer used them to win this year's Los Angeles and Tucson Opens, is now marketing his own line of clubs. Billy Casper, Sam Snead, Gary Middlecoff and Julius Boros all are experimenting with aluminum clubs, and George Archer claims that his new aluminum-shafted driver gives him an extra 15 yards of distance on every tee shot. That, says Archer, helps account for the fact that he has won $93,200 on the pro tour this year...
Tommy Armour, Gene Sarazen, Alex Morrisson-almost every oldtimer still hale enough to handle a club or a typewriter gets into the act. Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis, continues to drill out advice, though he stands farther than Palmer from the actual practice of journalism. His ghostwriter, Reporter Thomas E. Michael of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, last consulted the dentist nine years ago. "I'm very much by myself," says Michael, who has since managed six Middlecoff bylines a week-for steadily dwindling readership. Most golf columns lose readers at about the same rate that their custodians lose...
Challenge Golf (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Jerry Barber and Cary Middlecoff challenge Arnold Palmer and Gary Player...
World Championship Golf (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gary Middlecoff and Jim Ferree at Harder Hall, Sebring...