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...warning signs on the packages, and in three tournaments so far this season he has placed first, second and third for total winnings of $23,787. He still is not satisfied. "I'm making too many bogeys," Palmer complained last week, after he shot a nine-under par 275 to pick up third-place money of $3,037 at the Lucky...
...sliced through the ligaments on the backs of both hands to free his pinched nerves. On the strength of his showing last week, the operation was a success. He had to wear gloves on both hands between shots and use hand warmers besides, but he fired an eleven-under-par 273 to win the Lucky by one stroke and collect his first winner's check-$8,500-in almost two years. "It's nice," he said, "to be back among the players...
...Swenson will have to dispel a general impression that all of the Coop's troubles can be tied to its own "inefficiency and chaos," and that its textbook and general book departments are somehow below par...
Business is generally brisk. In the 1964 Crosby, Arnold Palmer dumped three balls in the drink, took nine strokes to get down on the par-three, 217-yd. 17th. In 1959, Gene Littler needed only a par five on the 535-yd. 18th to tie Art Wall for the title; he hooked his second shot into the water, wound up with a double-bogey seven. Of course, there have been days when the 18th played easier; a San Franciscan named Mat Palacio once hit a drive in the general direction of China and muttered, "Only God can save that...
...Crimson, playing considerably below par, outclassed the Tigers in Buffalo last month 6 to 3 Normally, it would have no trouble with the Nassau icemen, but this time the contingent of New Jersey based Canadians will have everything going for them...