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Bobby Jones once observed that nobody really wins a major golf tournament; someone always loses it. Indeed the salient feature of last week's British Open was not so much Lee Trevino's narrow victory, but Jack Nicklaus' slender loss. Nicklaus had already won the Masters at Augusta, Ga., and the U.S. Open and had set his sights on this tournament and the upcoming P.G.A. in a bid for an unprecedented grand slam of professional golf...
...came incredibly close in what was likely the most dramatic finish in golf history. Nicklaus went into the closing round on Scotland's sun-sluiced Muirfield course a full six strokes behind Defending Champion Trevino and five behind Britain's dogged Tony Jacklin. Trevino had blistered the parched fairways at the finish of the third round with birdies on the final five holes for a 66, which tied the course record and put him one stroke ahead of Jacklin. Nicklaus, playing what was for him desultory golf, needed birdies on two of the final three holes merely...
...just as if Willie Mays had hit two game-winning home runs off Mickey Lolich in the World Series. Or George Blanda had outplayed Roger Staubach in back-to-back Super Bowls. Or Sammy Snead had beaten Jack Nicklaus in successive play-offs for the Masters. Last week, at 37, for the second year in a row, Ken Rosewall won the world championship of professional tennis. Once again, he did it by defeating the most formidable opponent possible, Rod ("The Rocket") Laver...
Playing amid cold, blustery breezes that shook the dogwood and azaleas, Nicklaus shot closing rounds of 73 and 74 over Augusta's long, hilly par-72 course. But he still managed to win by three strokes with a total score of 286. "Nobody made a run at me," said Nicklaus, seemingly disappointed...
Palmer came in at 300. So did Trevino, who was ending a two-year boycott of the Masters. Apart from Nicklaus' brazen attempts to reach the green in two on the 520-yd., water-guarded 15th hole, most of the excitement was in Augusta's parking lot, where Trevino used his red Dodge Charger as a locker room and interview post. Apparently miffed over the near eviction of his driver-valet for not wearing the proper badge during a practice round, Trevino gave the clubhouse wider berth than a curl-lipped bunker. Nicklaus, of course, could...