Word: nicklaus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE DESERT GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Such pros as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus along with a flock of golfing celebrities join Bob in his ninth annual tourney, live from Palm Desert, Calif. Final round on Sunday...
...16th hole, for example, an alert cameraman caught Jack Nicklaus opening his club face on an approach shot. That, explained Commentator Byron Nelson, was for backspin. And sure enough, the ball hit beyond the pin and rolled back, back-whoops, too far. When he got to the par-five 18th hole, Nicklaus was four strokes behind, so he audaciously decided to go for an eagle. His second shot landed on an impossible rock perch at the top of a sheer drop down to the ocean. A forehanded ABC crewman was in the right place with a hand-held camera...
Like most duffers, Henry Hook tried everything. He bought Jack Nicklaus golf clubs, Arnold Palmer golf gloves and Ben Hogan golf shoes; he memorized Gary Player's Positive Golf, watched Dow Finsterwald's Golf Tips on TV, and visited a Sam Snead Driving Range three times a week. He used balls with rubber centers, steel centers and liquid centers, switched from a cash-in putter to a bull's-eye putter to a mallet-head putter. And he still couldn't break 100. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I played worse last year...
...first hole at Las Vegas' Paradise Valley Country Club, Nicklaus elected to use a No. 3 wood off the tee, blasted the ball nearly 400 yds., and collected his first birdie of the day. At the end of nine, Jack was three strokes under par. On the 375-yd., par-four tenth hole, his tee shot left him 85 yds. from the pin. Jack put his wedge to work. The ball sailed onto the green, bounced, bit, and dropped into the hole for an eagle two. Darn, groused Jack: "I hit it too solidly. It nearly...
There is no telling what the score might have been if Nicklaus' putter had been hot. Twice in the next eight holes he hung birdie putts on the lip of the cup; on the 15th, he blew an easy 41-footer and took a bogey. But he birdied the llth, and 13th and the 14th, and on the 495 yd., par-five 17th, he collected his second eagle-covering those 495 yds. with a drive, a No. 4 iron and a 12-ft. putt. With a par on the 18th, Jack was finished. His score: 33 on the front...