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...players on the Harvard men's tennis learn had Georgia on their minds yesterday, but they thought about the Palmer Dixon Courts just enough to whip Dartmouth 8-1 in their final match before the national championships next week...
...Jack" period of the early '60s, Nicklaus had the bad form to beat Arnold Palmer against everyone's wishes. With a hitch and a slouch and a natural grace, Palmer had lifted the country-club game onto his square shoulders, carried it to the people and made it a sport. Palmer looked like an athlete: a prizefighter, a middleweight. Nicklaus looked like a golfer, which was to say, like an unmade...
Together they reigned over the sport in their different provinces. It was almost as if God said to Nicklaus, "You will have skills like no other," then whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more." In time, people came to love Nicklaus well enough, but the two continued to rule golf jointly. To golf's chagrin, they still do-although, at 52, Palmer has not won since 1973, and Nicklaus, 42, is almost two years between victories himself...
...past five summers, Tom Watson has been the best golfer in the world, though not as good as Nicklaus used to be, and a very attractive fellow too, just not as compelling as Palmer. There are yet one or two colorful characters around: old Chi Chi Rodriguez, still wearing an imaginary scabbard on one hip for sheathing his trusty putter; and aging clown Lee Trevino, whose sense of humor is mercurial. But golf's color at the moment is not especially good. Peripatetic South African Gary Player is fading. His excursions to the U.S. last year fetched him only...
...always shown my emotions, and I guess I always will." From the breed of golfers who hate to smile or suffer outwardly, here is one who will drop his head and his heart, his club and sometimes his caddie. No one will ever again be Nicklaus or Palmer, let alone equal parts of both, but Stadler at least will not have to belly flop into any lakes. At the Masters, a deep thinker asked him, "Where are you now, and where are you going?" "Here," the Walrus said, "and home." -By Tom Callahan