Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Things have come to a pretty pass when betting on golf gets as risky as betting on horses. It used to be that all anyone had to do was book both Arnie Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to win the big tournaments; one or the other al most always did. Not this year, though.Palmer won the Masters. But who could have figured Ken Venturi to win the U.S. Open? Or Tony Lema to rattle off four victories in six weeks,including the British Open? Or Bobby Nichols to beat them all in theProfessional Golfers Association championship...
...ever a tournament looked like a lock for the Big Two, it was the P.G.A. It is the only major title Palmer has never won, and he took a week's holiday just to work himself up to proper pitch. Nicklaus was the defending champion, and he figured to know the Columbus (Ohio) Country Club like the back of his chubby hand - being as how he has lived most of his 24 years in Columbus...
...assorted internal injuries. That ruled out such sports as football and basketball. But he could still play golf, and after college he turned pro, with so-so results: in five years, he won three tournaments, created his biggest splash in 1962 when he wound up third behind Nicklaus and Palmer in the U.S. Open...
That put Tony in a sudden-death playoff with Arnold Palmer, a beer man. Sudden death is hardly the word. Suicide is a better term: out of 19 playoffs in his career, Palmer has won twelve. But Tony is a brinkman too; it makes the bubbly taste all the better. On the first hole, a 398-yard par-four, he watched Palmer smack his drive over a creek all the way to the base of the elevated green. Briefly, Lema fingered the "safe" club-a No. 4 iron. Then he reached for a driver too. "I might as well...
...suddenly had another chance to win. This time he took a deep breath and stroked the ball neatly into the center of the cup. Birdie, hole and match for Lema's third victory in four weeks. His 1964 winnings now totaled $60,561, only $1,090 behind King Palmer himself...