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...18th green at Louisiana's Oakbourne Country Club, Gay Brewer marked his ball and turned to Jack Nicklaus. "What's it worth to you," he asked, "if I miss this putt?" Nicklaus solemnly reached into his pocket, pulled out a money clip crammed with bills, and held it out to Brewer. Brewer chuckled impishly, lined up his putt-a straight-in 15-footer-and missed. It was a fitting climax to pro golf's 1964 season, a wacky eleven months in which a reformed rake named Tony Lema won four tournaments in six incredible weeks; in which...
...Nicklaus did not win the Cajun Classic; Louisiana's Miller Barber...
...Jack Nicklaus: the Australian Open Golf Championship, with a sizzling five-under-par 67 in an 18-hole playoff against Aussie Pro Bruce Devlin. The money was measly ($1,787), but it was Jack's first win in three trips Down Under, and the first U.S. victory in the Open since Gene Sarazen...
...biggest paycheck in golf: $50,000. It was all "unofficial" as far as the Professional Golfers' Association was concerned, but the victory boosted Lema's 1964 win nings to $122,555 - ranking him ahead of the two top "official" moneywinners, Arnold Palmer ($110,743) and Jack Nicklaus...
Still a stroke behind at the start of the final round, Arnold Palmer shot a 69 that was good, but not nearly good enough. Nicklaus matched Nichols' first-round record with a magnificent 64. But that only got him a 274, and a tie with Palmer for second place. Nichols had his game under control now. He only hit one tree in 18 holes, sank putts of 15, 18, 35 and 51 ft. for a three-under 67 and a 72-hole total of 271. "All week long, I've been praying to St. Jude, the patron saint...