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Last week, it was a pretty green jacket with brass buttons and an embroidered map of the U.S. on the breast pocket. The blazer and $20,000 go to the Masters champion, and Arnold Palmer got close enough last week to read the label-while he was helping Jack Nicklaus slip...
...Palmer's course. It all started last year, when Arnie won the Masters, and visions of a grand slam were dancing before his eyes. So off he went to the U.S. Open at Oakmont, Pa., a course he had played at least 200 times before-and what happened? Nicklaus beat him. Jack did it again in the World Series of Golf, that time for $50,000, the biggest prize in the game. But last week's blow was the hardest of all. Every duffer knows that the Masters is Arnie Palmer's private tournament: in five years...
Tough & Mean. "Gary Player says he's going to win," said Nicklaus on the eve of the Masters. "Arnie Palmer says he's going to win. I say I am." A scrambling opening-round 74, two over par, failed to shake his confidence. "How are you feeling?" asked a friend. "Big and strong?'' "Yeah." growled Nicklaus. "Big and strong-and tough and mean." On the second day, Jack Nicklaus gave the big (6,980-yd.), tough Augusta National Course one of the worst floggings in its history...
...Jack Nicklaus stood off fourth round bids by Tony Lema and aging Sam Snead to win the Masters Golf Tournament by a stroke in Augusta, Ga. yesterday. The 23-year-old Nicklaus became the youngest player ever to win a Masters. His 286 total was the highest winning score in seven years of play...
...comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot him into the lead over a field that included Palmer, Player, Nicklaus and 152 others...