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...yard 15th, Nicklaus got his eagle by cranking out a drive that split the wasp-waisted fairway and then hitting a 235-yard two-iron shot that landed fizzing and kicking with backspin 30 feet beyond the flagstick...
This winter Nicklaus took his time emerging from hibernation, as he missed the cut in the Hawaian Open and finished well back in the other events. The five-stroke win was the Bear's 61st PGA victory, which ties him on the all-time list with "the little colossus" Ben Hogan, behind Sam Snead...
...Nicklaus's stunning two-iron was certainly no flash-in-the-pan as Jack began grooving his swing when he turned ten under the tutelage of Jack Grout, the well-known professional then at the Scioto Country Club in Ohio. Grout in turn had been an assistant to Henry Picard, who is regarded as the finest striker of a two-iron who ever lived. The newspapers loved to refer to Picard as "the chocolate soldier" because he was the pro at the Hershey, Pennsylvania golf club...
...Nicklaus, the offpsring of a clan of brawney boiler-makers who emigrated to Columbus, Ohio from Alsace-Lorraine, carded a 51 the first time he every played nine holes...
...Nicklaus won his first U.S. amateur but played mediocre in 1960 despite almost winning the Open at Cherry Hills. What stamped Nicklaus as having the stuff of one of the game's greatest champions was his play later that year in the second World Amateur Championship for the Eisenhower...