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There, between the baseball scores and the fishing tables, the nation's leading golf pros have turned syndicated columnists. It can be an extremely lucrative sideline. Mark H. McCormack and Arthur J. Lafave Jr., Cleveland attorneys who handle the literary careers of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Doug Sanders and Gary Player, count it a poor year when their clients' bylines do not earn at least as much as their tournament play. Palmer's column, which appears in 150 papers, generates upward of $50,000 a year...
After 15 P.G.A. tournaments, in three of which neither played, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were battling it out as usual for the lead in money winnings. The only thing still up for grabs was third trumpet on the Fort Knox bandwagon. Puerto Rico's Juan ("Chi Chi") Rodriguez was tooting mightily, and only a connoisseur would have the bad sense to ask whatever happened to Tony Lema. The standings last week, before the Colonial National in Fort Worth...
...Jack Nicklaus Arnold Palmer Juan Rodriguez...
...five were deadlocked for the lead with 69s. One of them, of course, was Palmer. "Uninteresting," he called his round. Another was South Africa's Gary Player, despite an attack of tonsillitis that left him croaking like a bullfrog. And what of Nicklaus, the defending champ, the people's choice? He settled for a one-underpar 71-not bad, considering that the longest putt he sank all day was a seven-footer. "The ball went over the hole and around the hole," he muttered, "but never into the hole...
...into a pretzel on the putting green. He almost falls down on the tee. He follows through-ah, but no matter! On the second day, Arnie showed up relaxed and smiling, and shot a 68 that gave him a four-stroke lead on the field and seven strokes on Nicklaus. "It's beginning to look like we're playing for second place," grunted one straggler...