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...your fantasies." In that delightful aside after his U.S. Open victory at Pebble Beach last summer, Watson told how, while a student at nearby Stanford, he had often practiced just the closing holes there, thinking: "All right, you need to play these last two holes one-under to beat Nicklaus in the Open." Watson's dramatic chip-in at 17 last June, which the world thought was miraculously struck, he considered only amazingly timed. "To do it then, "he says. On the record, he had been the best golfer for five years, but crashing at the U.S. Open...
...memorize the statistics of every Major League player. I didn't even know that Dave Rignetti was sent to the last year. I missed, on purpose, the NCAA basketball finals, and really didn't care that N.C. State scored an upset I only watch golf tournaments when Jack Nicklaus is on the leader's board...
...like these confrontations,"said Nicklaus, who has won four U.S. Opens and finished second four times. "I like to think that I can work hard enough at it the next few years to have a few more...
When the shot miraculously dropped, Watson ran off his tension and excitement, galloping around the edge of the green with his head tossed back like a chestnut colt's. "All I saw was him running around," said Nicklaus, who had completed his own play and was watching a television monitor near the 18th green. "At first I thought he had flipped out, because I couldn't imagine anyone holing it from there." After Watson had plotted a careful par at 18, only happening to make the birdie putt for a two-shot victory, there was Nicklaus waiting...
...said around golf that anyone who intends to win the Open is advised to do so early on. The very first tour victories of Nicklaus and Lee Trevino were Opens; Sam Snead never did win one. "I can't make it happen," Watson eventually concluded, after painful failures. "I have to let it happen." When it did, the release it brought him was something to see. "If you're there by quirk or luck," Watson says, "you're not nervous the same way you are when you are playing well and know you can win. Then...