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...what Jack Nicklaus can do for golf; ask only what golf can do for Jack Nicklaus. What more, that is. In a little over four years as a pro, Nicklaus, 26, has won 18 tournaments and earned $449,048 in prize money-plus another $2,000,000 or so from endorsements, investments, articles, books and TV. That allows him to live in a $140,000 house, fly his own $225,000 airplane, stuff himself with steaks (sometimes four per meal), and get eleven hours sleep a night. It also entitles him to blow a round now and then. Like...
...Jack!" Now there was a week. The august members of Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club were embarrassed when Nicklaus ripped their course to shreds last year-firing a record 17-under-par 271 for 72 holes, winning the Masters by nine strokes. Last week there were spongy fairways to deaden long drives and two new greens that were as fast as billiard tables. Hostile fans screamed, "Too bad, Fat Jack!" whenever Nicklaus flubbed a shot. History was against Jack: nobody had ever won the Masters twice in a row. And so, it seemed, was fate...
...night before the tournament started, Nicklaus' close friend Bob Barton was killed in a private-plane crash (along with his wife and another couple) while en route to watch Jack play. "Golf has never seemed so secondary," muttered the melancholy champion. "It's pretty hard to get excited about 5-ft. putts this week...
MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). The 30th annual tournament, with Jack Nicklaus defending his title against top U.S. and foreign professionals and amateurs...
...absence really does make the heart grow fonder, Arnie Palmer and Ken Venturi must think that Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player are the tops, the Colosseum and the Small Business Administration all rolled into one. Nick laus (at $152,000) and Player (at $71,000) were big winners on the 1965 pro tour, but so far this year they could qualify for unemployment compensation. Jack has played in one tournament and earned $1,405; Gary has yet to see a sixpence. And last week, with $57,000 up for grabs in San Francisco's Lucky International tournament, they were...