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...golfers' awe of Nicklaus-this prehistoric bear-is so gigantic that on meeting him, many people are surprised that he is under 6 ft. Is this the man who bashes the ball so hard and so high and leaves "bear tracks" in the green to chill Johnny Miller? "Don't disturb the bear," Lee Trevino shuddered, even when Trevino was disturbing him greatly. Watson was the first to come along who really thought he was the equal of Nicklaus, and he is the only one Nicklaus truly came to regard as a peer. Over the past six years...
...four great occasions when Nicklaus and Watson have looked each other in the eye-the 1977 Masters; the British Open that year at Turnberry, Scotland; the 1981 Masters; and last year at Pebble Beach-it has always been Jack who blinked. At Turnberry, their epic confrontation, Nicklaus finished 65-66 with a stouthearted 40-ft. putt spoiled by Watson's 65-65 and a stately seven-iron shot that settled lightly by the last hole. Squeezing Tom's arm-Watson is rather diminutive, 5 ft. 9 in., but the arms are parts off a larger man-Nicklaus told...
...Open, Nicklaus says just as forthrightly, "My year was finished 15 minutes after Tom's shot went in at 17. But I'm over that now." It is a new year. For everyone who plays for something beyond money (maybe only two of them), the year begins this week in Augusta, Ga., at the Masters, resumes at the U.S. Open in June, winds down at the British Open in July, and concludes at the P.G.A. in August...
...though he holds the championships of both the U.S. and Britain, and Nicklaus has no current title, Watson knows, "As long as Nicklaus is still active, I'm going to play second fiddle." Far from minding too much, Watson would take more solitude if he could...
...says, almost flamboyantly. "I don't want people to know a certain private side of myself. They have no business." It is not an appreciation for aesthetics that makes Watson the finest of so many excellent golfers today, maybe a few too many of them towheads. "As Nicklaus says, 'There are better scorers today than ever before.' Not players, scorers," Watson notes. He leaves it to you to mull the distinction. "Nobody on tour today can play like Hogan or Snead," he says, "not even Nicklaus." There is nothing obvious to choose between any two of today...