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...first year Jack Nicklaus decided that playing golf was a nicer way to make a million than selling insurance, he merely won the U.S. Open (TIME cover, June 29, 1962), two other tournaments, and pocketed $61,869 in official earnings. That year Arnold Palmer, golf's reigning king, won eight tournaments and took home $81,448. In his sophomore year, Nicklaus won five tournaments and $100,040. Palmer was still king with seven victories and $128,230. After that, it was goodbye Arnie. In his junior year, Nicklaus won four tournaments to Palmer's two and collected...
...Jack Nicklaus, 25: the Thunderbird Classic golf tournament with an 18-under-par 270 for the 72 holes, over Gary Player (272) and Gardner Dickinson (275), raising his official 1965 winnings by $20,000 to $89,700-a full $31,000 more than any other professional golfer; at the Westchester Country Club, Harrison...
...rooms surround palm-filled inner courtyards. Guests with rooms facing west gaze out on a beach with sand the consistency of powdered sugar and water that has never known seaweed. Those to the east look out over an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones that Jack Nicklaus has described as "more fun to play than any course I know." Farther to the east stands Mauna Kea itself, whose 13,825-ft. snow-capped crest makes it the tallest island mountain in the world...
...Royal Birkdale golf course, 7,037 yds. of sand, gorse, bracken and narrow fairways that twist like green ribbons around the bleak coast of Liverpool Bay. It was at Royal Birkdale that Thomson won his first British Open in 1954-when Arnold Palmer was still an amateur and Jack Nicklaus was in junior high school. Palmer was there last week, gunning for his third British Open with a brand-new putter and the happy air of a man who has given up trying to give up smoking. So was Nicklaus, grimly "desperate" he said, to win the only...
Slip in the Tub. Nerves began to show. Lema moaned about his driving ("I know where to hit the ball, but I can't hit it there") and Nicklaus griped about the greens: "Bumpy, too slow, the worst I've ever seen for a British Open." Player's complaint was a stiff neck, the consequence of trying to do calisthenics in his bathtub. "I can only manage half a backswing," he groaned. Peter Thomson kept quiet-mostly because he had never felt better in his life. For four years, he had been plagued by chronic hay fever...