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Like most duffers, Henry Hook tried everything. He bought Jack Nicklaus golf clubs, Arnold Palmer golf gloves and Ben Hogan golf shoes; he memorized Gary Player's Positive Golf, watched Dow Finsterwald's Golf Tips on TV, and visited a Sam Snead Driving Range three times a week. He used balls with rubber centers, steel centers and liquid centers, switched from a cash-in putter to a bull's-eye putter to a mallet-head putter. And he still couldn't break 100. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I played worse last year...
...golfer who hits a two-iron 210 yds. to within 3 in. of the pin and then complains, "Shucks, I pulled it," either has to be kidding-or Jack Nicklaus. Other people play golf; Nicklaus plays a different game. Last week, shooting what he called "the best competitive round" of that game he has ever played, Jack won the Sahara Invitational and boosted his season's earnings to an all-time record...
...first hole at Las Vegas' Paradise Valley Country Club, Nicklaus elected to use a No. 3 wood off the tee, blasted the ball nearly 400 yds., and collected his first birdie of the day. At the end of nine, Jack was three strokes under par. On the 375-yd., par-four tenth hole, his tee shot left him 85 yds. from the pin. Jack put his wedge to work. The ball sailed onto the green, bounced, bit, and dropped into the hole for an eagle two. Darn, groused Jack: "I hit it too solidly. It nearly...
There is no telling what the score might have been if Nicklaus' putter had been hot. Twice in the next eight holes he hung birdie putts on the lip of the cup; on the 15th, he blew an easy 41-footer and took a bogey. But he birdied the llth, and 13th and the 14th, and on the 495 yd., par-five 17th, he collected his second eagle-covering those 495 yds. with a drive, a No. 4 iron and a 12-ft. putt. With a par on the 18th, Jack was finished. His score: 33 on the front...
...Classic in Harrison, N.Y.; the second $50,000 was top prize at last week's 36-hole World Series of Golf in Akron, Ohio. Because the P.G.A. does not recognize the World Series as a legitimate tournament, the $50,000 winner's check did not count toward Nicklaus' official 1967 earnings, which last week stood at $156,748. But together with his other money-from exhibitions, endorsements, TV and radio shows, royalties on golf clubs and clothes, stocks (Polaroid, Zenith, IBM), real estate and Louisiana oil-it pushed his total annual income toward another nice round figure...