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...which means that come the final week of June. When most will have been three weeks departed from Cambridge, the linksters will depart for Columbus, Ohio and a rendezvous with the same sand traps and water hazards that once caused Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf a whole lot of grief...and bogeys...
Yesterday, in a tri-meet contested between Harvard, Holy Cross, and Williams at the same course, the action wasn't quite as exciting as a Weiskopf-Johnny Miller-Jack Nicklaus fight to the finish, but it wasn't bad either...
...never thought of it being my fifth Masters title-not until it was over and I was slipping on the green coat," declared Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 35, who collected $40,000 in prize money and one more winner's jacket at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. Others were more acutely aware of Nicklaus' achievement. "I can't say how I feel," said an anguished Tom Weiskopf, who lost the lead and eventually finished second (for the fourth time), in a tie with Johnny Miller. "How do you describe pain?" For Nicklaus, the tournament's most...
...hecklers at an earlier tournament, Connors at first offered to buy 536 courtside box seats for his confrontation with Newcombe at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. No, thanks, said hotel officials. Then last week Connors' manager Bill Riordan gave a quick backhand to Golfer Jack Nicklaus, who, Riordan claimed, had labeled such big-money, head-to-head sports contests as "ripoffs of the public." Huffed Riordan: "Nicklaus wouldn't be making the big money he does if it weren't for Arnold Palmer, who turned the public on to golf. Jimmy Connors has turned...
...right down the middle of the fairway. Right or left won't do because branches on the trees there aren't cut back and you've only got about a 25-yd.-wide landing strip to have a clean second shot at the green. Jack Nicklaus uses a one-iron here for accuracy, but I'd rather take a chance with the driver and leave myself a pitch with the wedge rather than a seven-or eight-iron approach. On the green there's only 35 ft. between the front and back traps...