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...Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus: the $50,000 first prize in the $277,500 P.G.A. National Team competition, at the P.G.A. National Golf Club; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Proving once again that them what has gits, golf's two richest competitors shot a best-ball score of 258 for 72 holes-32-under-par, with 34 birdies, only two bogeys. Palmer's half of the loot brought his year's total earnings to $154,692; Nicklaus' half brought...
...Canada Cup, emblematic of world golf supremacy, for the eighth time in 14 years, as Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer shot a combined 72-hole score of 548, or 28 under par; at the Yomiuri Country Club, in Tokyo. The individual competition was won by George Knudson, who sank a 12-ft. putt on the second hole of a sudden-death play-off to break a tie with Japan's Hideyo Sugimoto. Nicklaus finished third, Palmer fifth...
...what about Golfer Jack Nicklaus? Since his June 29, 1962 cover, which marked his victory in the U.S. Open, he has become one of the alltime big money winners in professional golf. "I was more than flattered to be on the cover," says Nicklaus. "It's silly to worry about a jinx...
...prize of $50,000, the World Series is supposed to match the winners of golfs top four tournaments -the U.S. Open, the Masters, the British Open and the P.G.A. Three of the slots were easy to fill: Billy Casper won the Open, Al Geiberger won the P.G.A., and Jack Nicklaus was the Masters, champion. But Nicklaus also won the British Open. That left an open slot, and under the rules, it belonged to the winner of the Western Open. Only that was Billy Casper. So the promoters had to go all the way back to the winner of last year...
...nothing if not true to himself. He did his level best to lose the World Series, but it just wasn't enough. On the final day, going into the 625-yd. par-five 16th hole at the Firestone Country Club, he was leading Geiberger by two strokes, Nicklaus and Casper by four. So what did Gene do? He shanked a little pitch shot into a water hazard, took a double bogey, and dropped back into a tie with Nicklaus-who sank a nine-foot putt for a birdie. When Al Geiberger birdied the par-four, 465-yd. 18th...