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...here they may play baseball with a rabbit ball, but Down Under they must play golf with a kangaroo ball. Or so it seemed last week, as South Africa's Gary Player and the U.S.'s Jack Nicklaus made a shambles of Adelaide's Kooyonga Golf Course in the Australian Open...
...surprised any more that a man can earn a six-figure income merely by knocking a little white ball around the grass. Two years ago, Arnie Palmer took home a record $128,230 in official earnings. But the big man now is Jack Nicklaus, the king of the links, and he only has to work at it for ten months of the year...
Going into last week's Portland (Ore.) Open, Nicklaus had played in 16 official tournaments, had won four including the Masters, finished among the top five in eight others. He won again at Portland, with a 72-hole total of 273, which put him 15 under par and three strokes ahead of Dave Marr. The $6,600 top money boosted his season's winnings to $134,045, a new alltime record. That makes $409,238 for Jack in four years on the tour-only a season or so away from Palmer's $600,000-plus, total...
...Gary Player, 29: the World Series of Golf, sinking a 51 -ft. putt on the 35th hole to sew up a three-stroke victory over Jack Nicklaus, and $50,000, golf's biggest prize; in Akron, Ohio. Winner of the U.S. Open, and a gentleman farmer from Magoebaskloff, South Africa, Player headed straight home (via chartered jet to New York, airlines the rest of the way), remarking: "I've got 1,000 trout in my fishponds, and I need all of them because Jack Nicklaus is coming over in February to fish...
WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jack Nicklaus, winner of the Masters tourney, will be joined by U.S. Open Champion Gary Player, British Open Winner Peter Thomson and Dave Marr, winner of the P.G.A. Color...