Word: palmer
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Saturday, May 6 HOUSTON CHAMPIONS INTERNATIONAL (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Pros and amateurs from Belgium to Japan join top U.S. golfers (defending champion: Arnold Palmer) in this $100,000 tournament at Houston's Champions Golf Course. Continued Sunday afternoon...
...three-putted the 72nd hole in the Masters to blow a one-stroke lead, then lost the play-off to Jack Nicklaus; he frittered away a five-stroke lead in the last 18 holes of Las Vegas' Tournament of Champions, then lost the play-off to Arnold Palmer...
...Masters, Gay had won the Pensacola Open for the second year in a row-impressively this time, firing a record 61 in the third round. But at Augusta the oddsmakers gave Brewer no better than a 10-to-l chance of beating the "Big Three"-Nicklaus, Palmer and Player-who among them had won seven straight Masters...
...oddest Masters in years. Complaining that the grass on Augusta's fairways was too high. Player shot a first-round 75 and never got back into contention. Palmer had all kinds of trouble with his putter and the par-five 13th hole. And Nicklaus? Playing like any duffer, he staggered through a second-round 79, missed the 36-hole cut, and joined the spectators-staying around the last two days only to perform the formality of helping the new champion into his winner's blazer...
...Harvard tennis team smothered a weak Brown squad at the Palmer Dixon Indoor Courts yesterday, losing only one set en route...