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...Jack Nicklaus keep up his recent winning pace to collect his fifth Masters title? Can Johnny Miller, who missed the cut at the Heritage Classic, regain the winning touch that earned him three titles earlier this season? How will Lee Elder handle the pressure of being the first black to compete for the winner's green jacket? These are among the tantalizing questions that will draw thousands of fans to Augusta, Ga., this week, and millions more to their television sets to view golf's most notable rite of spring-the Masters tournament...
...With baseball, say, Loyal Park can go around and tell a guy he's not fielding well because he's holding his glove too high. But with golf it's not that easy to tell why you aren't playing well. If you had Jack Nicklaus, maybe he could tell you, but otherwise you just have to go out and drive balls for an hour or putt for an hour...
...Miller's performance has reached an awe-inspiring consistency. Last year he won the first three tour events and finished with eight victories and a single-season prize-money record of $353,021. With the title of No. 1 money winner at stake in September, he shot down Nicklaus with a birdie on the second hole of a four-way sudden-death playoff at the World Open...
...accomplished this with a swing that Nicklaus and other pros admire as "the soundest on the tour." (As a teen-age caddy, Miller spent more time practicing his swing than following the customer's ball, and earned a reputation as a poor bag bearer.) His iron play is phenomenal, time and again delivering the ball stiff to the pin, and he putts with the boldness and confidence that once distinguished the play of a not yet forgotten superstar-Arnold Palmer...
...this year's Masters, Open, P.G.A. and British Open? He likes his chances in all of them. "I'm more experienced now. I make fewer mental errors and I don't choke as much as I once did. My choking point is probably higher than Nicklaus...