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...pressure. His simple philosophy -- "I just hit it hard as I can, and if I find the ball I hit it again" -- strikes a responsive chord in galleries. Moreover, Daly is a rarity: a self-made player. He says he learned to hit the ball by watching Jack Nicklaus on TV, by looking at instructional diagrams in golf magazines, and by experimenting with what felt natural as he played on a rural nine-hole course in Dardanelle...
...very peculiarities that have made him golf's latest hero if he is to get the most out of his prodigious natural ability. It may be that Daly's swing is too complicated and his game too reliant on intangibles to carry him to the level of his idol Nicklaus. But there is something heroic in the quotable slugger's triumph, and it would be a shame to see him become one of the legion of golf technocrats who threaten to turn the sport into a boring science. There may be a lesson for other pros in the enormous...
...from the backyard game forced on kids to keep them from killing one another before the hot dogs are served. The grownup version is a maze of complicated tactics, arcane terminology and bizarre rules played against a ticking stopwatch. A good player must have the wrists of Jack Nicklaus, the concentration of Bobby Fischer and the eye of Minnesota Fats. Ricocheting at precisely the right spot off the steel wicket is one way to get the grapefruit-size ball through the narrow hoop, anchored an unforgiving 9 in. into the ground with a clearance of one-sixteenth of an inch...
...Strategies. Expatriate Britons can actually catch up on the telly back home with BBC Video World, a biweekly compilation of the best from the BBC's two channels. "You can accomplish more in video magazines than you can in print magazines," contends Terry Jastrow, head of a joint ABC/Jack Nicklaus Productions venture that publishes the bimonthly Wide World of Golf. "And you have the time to do it in a video magazine that you don't have in a broadcast...
...photographed having sex with his daily chicken dinner. Yankee manager Pete Rose will lose $1000 for guessing incorrectly the date of Dwight Gooden's cocaine relapse. Larry Holmes, emerging from retirement to fight Tyson, will be caught with lead in his gloves. Tyson will beat him up anyway. Jack Nicklaus will be caught trying to improve his lie on the $1.3 million 18th hole of the Skins Game. "I was, uh, counting the dimples on my ball," Nicklaus will say in another lie needing great improvement...