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...also a hallowed tradition for the previous year's winner to present the green jacket to the incoming champ, which presented a thorny problem of etiquette when Jack Nicklaus repeated in 1966. Nicklaus was once again present in the winner's circle on Sunday, but this time as the runner-up to Watson, because his stretch drive fell short by two strokes...
Watson did better than that on Sunday, going around in one under by getting a birdie on 13. Nicklaus applied the pressure by birdieing the 12th, a 155-yard par three that he calls "the most demanding tournament hole in the world." In the previous five Masters, however, Nicklaus's average score for the 12th was a phenomenal shade under...
This is the international tournament in which Harvard's number one golfer Alex Vik played in this fall as a member of the Norwegian team. The American entry of Nicklaus, Deane Beman, Bob Gardner, and Bill Hyndman won the event held at Merion that year with Jack shooting rounds of 66, 67, 68 and 68, a full 18 strokes ahead of Hogan's total of 287 when he won the U.S. Open...
Seventeen years later the Bear is still astounding the golfing world. Last Sunday's victory had nostalgic over-tones as Nicklaus was paired with habitually grim-countenanced and sable-clad Gary Player--the last two survivors of the "the Big Four...
...Jack Nicklaus's peers on the pro circuit the analogy might seem an appropriate one but the Bear's game has brought him very little grief over the years. Bobby Jones supplied the definitive and oft-quoted summary of Nicklaus's game when the one golf immortal speaking of the other said: "He plays a kind of golf of which I am not familiar...