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...hire "knockers" to protect patrons from the hustlers. "Nobody gambles any more," sighs Lassiter. The only thing left is to play other hustlers and get TV to pay the salaries. So there they are, traveling from tournament to tournament, competing for $30,000 in Las Vegas, just like Jack Nicklaus and Arnie Palmer...
...plenty last week: two victories in eight days. At Pensacola, he sank a 35-ft. birdie putt on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff to beat Jack Nicklaus for the $10,000 winner's check. At the Doral Open in Miami, he fired a five-under-par 67 in the final round and picked up $11,000 more. That boosted his official 1965 winnings to $27,332, tops on the tour by $11,000 over Billy Casper. Now there was an excuse for a party. "I climbed out of the Mr. Clean bottle on Sunday," says Doug...
...must have. By week's end he had tied Nicklaus for the top prize in the Jacksonville Open pro-amateur, picking up another $462.50. And he did it all with the silliest swing in golf. Sanders stands stiff-legged, brings his club back such a short way that other pros say he "could swing in a telephone booth." With Jack Nicklaus still looking for his first victory of the year, Gary Player trying to commute from South Africa, and Arnie Palmer semiretired from the tour-he has played in only five of ten tournaments-Sanders sees no reason...
...less likely prospect: Bruce Crampton, 29, a stocky, stoical Aussie who has played in practically every tournament since he joined the U.S. pro circuit in 1957, and whose 1965 winnings, going into last week's Crosby, totaled exactly $0. But Crampton was taking lessons. And from whom? Jack Nicklaus. "Jack noticed that I was hooding my drives," said Crampton. "He adjusted my grip at the top, and that forced me to open my clubface at impact. Then he stood there and watched me hit for 45 minutes. I am grateful that a man of his stature should take...
...whole thing when he showed up at Los Angeles' 6,840-yd. Rancho Park course to defend his title last week. "The odds against a repeat victory must be 1,000 to 1," he told reporters. Actually, they were nowhere near that bad: 15 to 1. Jack Nicklaus, 1964's top money winner (at $113,284) was sitting this one out. Of course, that still left Ken Venturi, Billy Casper, Tony Lema-and Arnold Palmer, who shot a 66 in practice and happily allowed as how he was playing "pretty good, I guess." The odds on Arnie...