Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Angeles Open, first event on the winter pro tour, is hardly the ultimate test of golf. But it does have $50,000 in prize money, and until last week, it enjoyed a certain notoriety as one of the only two major U.S. tournaments that Arnold Palmer has never won (the other: the P.G.A. Three-time Masters cham pion, winner of the U.S. and British Opens and of more money in one year ($81,448 last season) than any other golfer in history, Palmer had played in the tournament seven times, had never finished better than tenth...
...headlines: smooth-swinging Gene Littler led briefly; aging (52 ) Dutch Harrison flashed enough of his old form to take the second-round lead; and Art Wall, the 1959 Masters winner, shot a third-round 67, four strokes under par. But the gallery paid little attention. By the time Palmer teed off for his final round, three strokes behind Wall, 5,000 jostling fans had enlisted in Arnie's Army, hoping for another of the blazing finishes that make Palmer the most exciting player in golf. They got it. On the 390-yd., par4 fourth hole. Arnie almost drove...
...around the course, scoreboards flashed the news of Palmer's rally, and his competitors began to falter. Art Wall bogeyed three holes in a row. Arnie himself faltered momentarily on the 11th: he drove into the rough, overshot the green with his approach, staggered through a double-bogey six. "It was.'' smiled Palmer, "an easy six." Again, on the par-3. 234yd. 17th, Palmer seemed in trouble. His No. 4 iron carried over the green on the nubby apron. 50 ft. from the pin. Palmer studied the lie. He pulled out a putter, punched the ball...
...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...