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...private clubs refuse to sponsor tournaments; they do not want the trouble, the expense-or strangers trampling their fairways. Another problem is pressure from the P.G.A.'s own members, particularly the less talented playing pros who want courses made easier to improve their chances of beating a Jack Nicklaus or an Arnold Palmer. "Easy courses are great levelers," explains famed Architect Robert Trent Jones, who has built or remodeled 350 courses around the world. "They are putters' courses. A really good golfer like Nicklaus or Palmer wins on good courses. On a bad course, their skill...
...covered, pins are set in the fattest parts of the greens, and the course may be deliberately shortened. For the Doral Open in Miami, the Doral Country Club's "Blue Monster" was cut from its nor mal length of 7,002 yds. to 6,652 yds., prompting Nicklaus to grouse: "We're playing from the ladies' tees." (They were.) The theory is that low scores attract fans. "People don't pay three and four and five bucks to watch us hacking out of the rough," says Ken Still, who finished fourth in the Pensacola Open...
...HOPE DESERT CLASSIC GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Among the pros: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Billy Casper. Among the celebrities: Ray Bolger, Joey Bishop, James Garner, Andy Williams, Harry James. The place: Bermuda Dunes Country Club, Palm Springs, Calif. (Finals at La Quinta Country Club will be broadcast Sunday...
...annoys Jack Nicklaus mightily to think that anybody anywhere is still not convinced he is the best golfer the world has ever seen. So Nicklaus, 27, has decided to do a couple of things about it. First, he intends to complete a "grand slam" in 1967 by winning all four top tournaments-the Masters, P.G.A., U.S. and British Opens. He has won them all before, but not in one year. Next, he is out to regain the money-winning title he lost last year to Billy Casper: $121,945 to $111,419. Nicklaus insisted that the amount of money...
...golf ball stays airborne, the more it is affected by wind. The tournament draw put him at the ocean-side Cypress Point course next day- and there the wind was howling in off the Pacific at 40 m.p.h., bending flag sticks over until the tips touched the ground. Nicklaus double-bogied three straight holes in the wind, and groaned: "I don't remember doing anything like that since I was ten years old." He still managed five birdies and a one-over-par 73 to hold the halfway lead by a comfortable two strokes. Every pro golfer...