Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nicklaus and the rest were be wildered by Troon, Palmer was not. Wearing longjohns, his sore back swabbed with liniment, he fired a first-round 71 that left him tied for third. "I'm leaving putts hanging all over the map." he groaned as he headed for the clubhouse. And if that was the kind of sweet-sour talk old Troon liked to hear, it certainly worked...
...know what's wrong," muttered Defending Champion Arnold Palmer on the eve of last week's British Open at Troon, Scotland. "My back hurts. My drives are straying off to the right. I don't know if I'll ever learn how to putt again. I'm just terrible-and I don't even want to talk about it." A photographer caught Palmer in a rare moment of pique (see cut), after a 4-ft. putt went awry during a practice round. But his complaints cut few divots with Britain's bookmakers...
...Impossible." Britain's best golfer, 49-year-old Dai Rees. who lost to Palmer by one stroke last year, failed to survive the 36-hole cut; so did Gene Littler, the 1961 U.S. Open champion, and South Africa's Gary Player, winner of the 1961 Masters. Complaining bitterly about the smaller British ball.*young Jack Nicklaus, conqueror of Palmer in the U.S. Open (TIME cover, June 29). sprayed himself out of contention with a first round 80. "An 80?" he moaned. "It's impossible. I can't shoot...
Next day, Palmer's cold putter suddenly turned hot: he shot a three-under-par 69 that put him two strokes ahead of the fast-fading pack. The critical play came at the fearsome. 485-yd. eleventh hole-"the worst hole I've ever played," said Palmer-where three players already had scored sextuple-bogey elevens and Nicklaus later staggered to a ten. Splitting the narrow fairway with a No. 1 iron. Palmer sent a No. 2 iron shot whistling onto the green, just 20 ft. from the pin. Coolly, he stepped up and sank the putt...
...Shocking." On the final day, Palmer took a lesson from his wife. "You're moving your head when you putt," she said...