Word: nicklaus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Nicklaus stood off fourth round bids by Tony Lema and aging Sam Snead to win the Masters Golf Tournament by a stroke in Augusta, Ga. yesterday. The 23-year-old Nicklaus became the youngest player ever to win a Masters. His 286 total was the highest winning score in seven years of play...
...dedicated Sunday golfer is a testament to hope. He falls over backward on the tee because Gary Player does. He cuts his ball nearly in half, trying to make it back up on the green just like Arnold Palmer. He crouches like Jack Nicklaus and peers curiously into the cup-looking for goodness knows what. When he smothers a drive, it is a "controlled hook," and when he shanks an approach, he is "opening up the green." He talks cunningly of "snakes" and "beaches" and "froghair,"* and he coyly buys hole-in-one insurance to pay for the party...
...comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot him into the lead over a field that included Palmer, Player, Nicklaus and 152 others...
...many of the money-money-money-but-no-prestige ones, such as the Buick Open ($52,000) and Palm Springs' Golf Classic ($50,000). It has even created some of the latter, threatening to throw the whole golfing profession off its economic balance. In September NBC collected Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer into something called World Series of Golf. Nicklaus had won $15,000 taking the U.S. Open. For becoming TV's champion...
...score for that last round was a sizzling 66; at the end, his nearest competitor was three strokes behind. Jack Nicklaus. Palmer's heir presumptive, wound up tied for 24th. Other pros just shrugged. Watching Palmer pocket the $9.000 winner's check. Mike Souchak shook his head. ''Here we go again.'' he murmured. "New year, same story...