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...shot a 56 for nine holes that day. Those of you in the know about these things will realize that while such a tally hardly had the golf world buzzing about the next Nicklaus, it was a hell of a score for someone who'd only hit golf balls through broken windmills...
...Maryland's new Tournament Players Club at Avenel, in the company of old comrades the likes of Gary Player, with a five-iron to the 187-yd. third hole, Palmer corked, uncorked and recorked this vintage year that saw Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd and Bob Murphy win the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Canadian Open...
...charming--an inviting and meticulously run theme park dedicated to the proposition that almost any fish or aquatic mammal can be trained to do almost anything. (Not so over at Cypress Gardens, where the host of the Little Critter Show became exasperated when one of his fowl performers, Quack Nicklaus, blew a stunt. Keened the trainer: "There's only so much you can teach a duck.") At Sea World the dolphins do backflips in sync; a walrus sprays his audience on cue; seals eat fish dangled by children; there are even a few humans doing water-ski daredeviltry...
Bouncing back to the winner's circle at a wonderful canter, Shoemaker misted like an old golfer (Shoe is a 12 handicap). "Old Jack Nicklaus did it," he said, "and I did it too. I thought that I might have one more chance to win the Derby. When Charlie showed me this big juicy colt last year, he told me, 'Here's one I'm going to save for you. We might have some fun with him.' " The British beer guzzler Bold Arrangement took a lovely second and hurried away with a foaming head to the 205-year-old "real...
...limit his time on the courses he builds. It would be an exaggeration to say Jackie had to lead the old man around the National like a blind ward, but just a slight one. Color-blind to begin with (Hart Schaffner and Barbara have dressed him for years), Nicklaus has lost the horizon. He mourns, "I'm missing the pleasure of watching my golf ball finish--I can't see that far anymore." Throughout the tournament, he was forever asking Jackie, "Did it stay on the green?" Sunday, they conferred over putts like sailors gauging breakers. "Looks like the left...