Word: nicklauses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dedicated Sunday golfer is a testament to hope. He falls over backward on the tee because Gary Player does. He cuts his ball nearly in half, trying to make it back up on the green just like Arnold Palmer. He crouches like Jack Nicklaus and peers curiously into the cup-looking for goodness knows what. When he smothers a drive, it is a "controlled hook," and when he shanks an approach, he is "opening up the green." He talks cunningly of "snakes" and "beaches" and "froghair,"* and he coyly buys hole-in-one insurance to pay for the party...
...Holland's Gerry de Wit at The Hague. The U.S.'s Dave Ragan will play against the Philippines' Celestino Tugot at Manila's Wack-Wack Golf Club. So it goes for all but one of the eleven matches in the series. In late February Jack Nicklaus plays Sam Snead at Pebble Beach, Calif., and it is difficult to guess what NBC considers foreign-Nicklaus, Snead, or Pebble Beach...
...many of the money-money-money-but-no-prestige ones, such as the Buick Open ($52,000) and Palm Springs' Golf Classic ($50,000). It has even created some of the latter, threatening to throw the whole golfing profession off its economic balance. In September NBC collected Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer into something called World Series of Golf. Nicklaus had won $15,000 taking the U.S. Open. For becoming TV's champion...
...score for that last round was a sizzling 66; at the end, his nearest competitor was three strokes behind. Jack Nicklaus. Palmer's heir presumptive, wound up tied for 24th. Other pros just shrugged. Watching Palmer pocket the $9.000 winner's check. Mike Souchak shook his head. ''Here we go again.'' he murmured. "New year, same story...
Challenge Golf (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). First of a 13-match series for $156,000, involving Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Phil Rodgers at Los Angeles Country Club...