Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visions of Grandeur. In the next day's playoff, everything seemed to favor Palmer. He had grown up in Latrobe, Pa., just 40 miles from Oakmont's rolling fairways, and he had played the course "at least 200 times" before. Winner of 33 tournaments, including the 1960 U.S. Open and last year's British Open, golf's reigning king was having his best year. With $60,331 already in the bank, he was-and still is-a good bet to smash his alltime money-winning record of $75,262, set in 1960. Having won his third...
...time at 1 :45 p.m., 10,000 keyed-up golf fans were strewn around the 6,894-yd. course. Wise ones invested in cardboard periscopes; wiser ones bought two, used Scotch tape to build periscopes on periscopes. All of them, it seemed, were for Palmer, the home-town hero. "Attaboy, Arnie!" cried the fans. "Go get him, Arnie, baby!" Some suggestions were even more pointed: "Needle him, Arnie." "Walk around while he's putting, Arnie...
Nicklaus acted as if he had cotton in his ears. He had played with Palmer during the first two rounds of the tournament, and he was used to Arnie's Army. As a matter of fact, the bigger Palmer's gallery, the better stolid Jack Nicklaus liked it. "Arnie always draws the big gallery wherever he goes," he said. "And a big gallery around the green is the biggest advantage a player can have. If you miss the green, you know the ball isn't going very far. The people just can't step...
...Plays Too Slow." On the very first hole, a downhill, 455-yd. par-four, Palmer pushed his drive into the rough, knocked his No. 6-iron approach over the green, overshot the pin by 15 ft. with a chip shot, two-putted for a weak bogey five. Playing near-flawless golf at a deliberate, almost indolent pace ("He plays too slow," said Palmer, "and I told him so"), Nicklaus made his par and took a one-stroke lead that he never relinquished. At the fourth hole, when Nicklaus hooked his tee shot into 6-in. rough. Palmer managed...
After eight holes, grimacing, shaking his head, cursing his "crooked" putting. Palmer trailed Nicklaus by four strokes, and hundreds of his rooters streamed dejectedly toward the air-conditioned clubhouse bar. But at that moment, when his cause seemed most hopeless, Palmer's cold putter turned hot. Plagued all tournament long by putts that simply would not drop-including one eight-footer that hung stubbornly on the rim while he waited for 3½ minutes-Palmer now could not miss. He birdied the ninth and eleventh holes, holed another birdie on the twelfth, and sliced Nicklaus' margin...