Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PALMER...
Most golfers would be flattered to be mentioned in the same breath with Arnold Palmer. But not Mickey Wright. "Bah," she snorts, when people call her "the Arnold Palmer of women's golf." "Palmer and I don't have a thing in common. I have a classic swing. His is all wrong. He's just lucky he's strong...
Hogwash, said Arnie Palmer. There had been no operation; the cyst was nothing more than a little wen, and it was on his backside, not his back. "I'm just bushed," he said. He thinks he will feel better in about a month, and then he will return to the tour-in time for New York's $100,000 Thunderbird Classic Invitational and the U.S. Open...
...True, Palmer had won three tournaments and $31,545 so far this season. But for the "King of the Fairways," who won a record $81,448 in 1962, that was tantamount to abdication. Palmer's 1963 money winnings ranked him a lowly fourth on the list headed by Jack Nicklaus, who already had $56,215 in the bank. He lost the Masters to Nicklaus by five strokes, the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions to Nicklaus by five strokes-and he had not won a tournament at all in more than two months...
What was wrong? Financial problems, Fellow Professional Doug Sanders suggested facetiously: "Arnie ought to take a week off just to count his money." Too many irons in the fire, said Palmer's father: "He's got to decide whether he wants to play golf or make television films with Bob Hope." Illness, guessed sportswriters, who reported that Palmer had undergone surgery in Texas for a "painful cyst" on his back...