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While in Florida on Tuesday, the team will play Sawgrass, the site of last weekend's Tournament of Players Championship won by Jack Nicklaus. The golfer playing Sawgrass sees his ball perform like a marshmallow in a wind tunnel; as even Nicklaus did not record a birdie while winning the tourney with a final round...
...portrait by Andy Warhol, who, of course, has also immortalized both soup cans and Monroe. Seaver's likeness, done in acrylic and silk screen on canvas, is part of Warhol's new series, which also includes Muhammad Ali, Dorothy Hamill, Chris Evert and Jack Nicklaus. Why Warhol's current interest in athletes? He has become a sports fan. Besides, he says, "sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were...
...turning point of the match came on the par five 500-yard 17th, known as Lang Whang, which is the Scottish vernacular for "long hit." Watson made the green in two strokes for a snug birdie to put him 11 under. Nicklaus trickled his chip to within five feet of the pin but his put for four was never on line as Watson bolted into the lead...
Both men, however, had one salvo of brilliant shotmaking left in them. Nicklaus plunked his drive in deep gorse along the hedgerows on 18 but managed to punch his second shot into the front of the green despite a restricted swing. He rapped the undulating 30-foot putt into the heart of the cup for a birdie three. Watson meanwhile hit his approach shot pin-high and needed only a tap-in for his monumental victory and the 10,000 pound first prize...
Ross could not be at hand to witness Watson's stirring victory but he would have been proud at what a stern test Turnberry provided for all but the winner and Nicklaus. Saturday's round was certainly one of the greatest head to head battles ever to take place in a ritish Open. J.H. Taylor, who won the Open five times at the turn of the century, once said that the best way to win the championship was to win easily. Watson's win was by no means easy, but after his triumph over Nicklaus in head to head battle...