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...baby." A case of locker-room braggadocio? The record backs him up. In the Professional Golfers' Association's first two tournaments this year, Miller's performance has been astonishing. By the time the players arrived in Pebble Beach, Calif., for the third event last week, Jack Nicklaus was grumbling: "All I've heard about since I got out here is Johnny Miller...
Conceding Nothing. His two victories in the Arizona sun added up to $70,000 and offered impressive evidence that he has displaced Jack Nicklaus as the lord of the links. Nicklaus admits, "Nobody's ever played on the tour as well as Miller is playing now," but he was conceding nothing as he jetted into Pebble Beach for the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am and his first confrontation with Miller this year...
...went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended in divorce, does find time to relax. His golf game is good enough (in the low 80s) to allow him to pair up occasionally with an acquaintance named Jack Nicklaus...
...Name players--Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, Casper, Trevino--had bypassed the Pleasant Valley Classic, either because they thought the course's super-narrow fairways were an unfair test or because they wanted to tune their games for the up-coming PGA Championship. Johnny Miller, former U.S. Open and British Open Champion Tony Jacklin, and tour veteran Grier Jones had withdrawn from the tournament for a variety of dissimilar reasons, while such stars as Bert Yancey, Frank Beard and Bob Goalby had failed to make the 36-hole cut of 148 (six over par on the 7305-yard, par 71 Pleasant Valley...
Pittsburgh Steeler Running Back Franco Harris coolly surveyed the pond and the line of trees guarding the 557-yd., par-five hole ahead. Then he belted the ball off the tee with all the power of Jack Nicklaus-but none of the accuracy. Far, far away, the ball hit the roof of a private home. After half a dozen more errant drives, course officials set a limit of twelve strokes per hole and charitably awarded Harris a mere triple bogey for his ordeal. "This isn't my game," he muttered...