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...Jack" period of the early '60s, Nicklaus had the bad form to beat Arnold Palmer against everyone's wishes. With a hitch and a slouch and a natural grace, Palmer had lifted the country-club game onto his square shoulders, carried it to the people and made it a sport. Palmer looked like an athlete: a prizefighter, a middleweight. Nicklaus looked like a golfer, which was to say, like an unmade...
Together they reigned over the sport in their different provinces. It was almost as if God said to Nicklaus, "You will have skills like no other," then whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more." In time, people came to love Nicklaus well enough, but the two continued to rule golf jointly. To golf's chagrin, they still do-although, at 52, Palmer has not won since 1973, and Nicklaus, 42, is almost two years between victories himself...
...past five summers, Tom Watson has been the best golfer in the world, though not as good as Nicklaus used to be, and a very attractive fellow too, just not as compelling as Palmer. There are yet one or two colorful characters around: old Chi Chi Rodriguez, still wearing an imaginary scabbard on one hip for sheathing his trusty putter; and aging clown Lee Trevino, whose sense of humor is mercurial. But golf's color at the moment is not especially good. Peripatetic South African Gary Player is fading. His excursions to the U.S. last year fetched him only...
...walrus who might become a king but is content being a cabbage. At 28, he is both a happy and a happy-go-lucky figure, bountifully blessed in life and golf at the moment, the way everything about him eventually tends to abundance. Stadler is as fat as Nicklaus ever was, but makes no apologies. "I enjoy being myself," he says...
...dropped from 230 to 195, dieting," he said, "but just didn't feel comfortable. I didn't have that gut in my way. So I've slowly crept back up." The occasional cruel remarks that tortured Nicklaus, Stadler shrugs off. When he was described as "a carnivorous moose stalking his dinner," his reaction was to say, "Moose aren't carnivorous." In his snug green Masters jacket, Stadler was asked about the changes a major championship would bring in his life. He had been the eighth leading money winner in both...