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Mitchell had blown a chance to win in regulation when he missed an 18-inch putt on the 17th hole. He finished the 72 holes in a tie with the more renowned Nicklaus...
...Nicklaus, the recently crowned Masters king who was shooting for his fourth victory of the season, has a final round...
Such was the talk inspired by Jack Nicklaus as he won the Masters golf tournament for the fourth time, a feat previously accomplished only by Arnold Palmer. Nicklaus' success in the Masters (which boosted his earnings to $134,473 so far this year, and to $1,517,637.19 for his ten-year pro career) was notable not merely for where it left him-firmly established as the world's top golfer-but for where it might lead him. For this year the 32-year-old Golden Bear is unabashedly in quest of golf's sweetest...
Grand Slam. No golfer has ever won the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the P.G.A. in the same year, although some, including Nicklaus, have taken all four of the tournaments at one time or another. Nicklaus has won the other three big titles twice each; before turning pro, he also took the U.S. Amateur championship twice. That leaves him just one short of the late Bobby Jones in total major titles (13). Although any golfer's chances of achieving the Grand Slam are slim at best, this could be the year that Nicklaus does...
...thing, the other big tournaments this year are on three of his favorite courses-California's Pebble Beach for the U.S. Open in June; Scotland's Muirfield for the British Open in July; and Michigan's Oakland Hills for the P.G.A. in August. Furthermore, as Nicklaus demonstrated once again at the Masters, even when he is not at his best he still stands a few feet taller than the competition...