Word: nicklauses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this season are $50,993; his unflappable, mechanical game reminds some of his fellow pros of Ben Hogan. Doug Ford, for one, insists that "Frank is the most consistent player, the best swinger on the tour." Beard himself is not too sure. "I'm never going to beat Nicklaus when he's right," he says. "Jack is just too long...
There are two questions that anyone who has been following the pro golf scene this year has to ask himself. The first is: "Who is Frank Beard?" And the second is: "What ever happened to Jack Nicklaus...
...four strokes, forgot to sign his score card, and was disqualified. Last year, Brewer set some sort of record for frustration in the space of one week. He three-putted the 72nd hole in the Masters to blow a one-stroke lead, then lost the play-off to Jack Nicklaus; he frittered away a five-stroke lead in the last 18 holes of Las Vegas' Tournament of Champions, then lost the play-off to Arnold Palmer...
...Tuning up for the Masters, Gay had won the Pensacola Open for the second year in a row-impressively this time, firing a record 61 in the third round. But at Augusta the oddsmakers gave Brewer no better than a 10-to-l chance of beating the "Big Three"-Nicklaus, Palmer and Player-who among them had won seven straight Masters...
...oddest Masters in years. Complaining that the grass on Augusta's fairways was too high. Player shot a first-round 75 and never got back into contention. Palmer had all kinds of trouble with his putter and the par-five 13th hole. And Nicklaus? Playing like any duffer, he staggered through a second-round 79, missed the 36-hole cut, and joined the spectators-staying around the last two days only to perform the formality of helping the new champion into his winner's blazer...