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...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. On the 508-yd., par-5 ninth hole at Los Angeles' Rancho Municipal Golf Course, there is even an aluminum plaque to commemorate an event that Palmer would just as soon forget. In 1961. gambling for an eagle on the hole, he hit four balls out of bounds, wound up with a twelve. "What happened...
...banged boldly into the cup. At first, other pros hogged the 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...
...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-and watched it roll smack into the cup for a birdie...
Probably because of the quality of their opposition, the Crimson racquet men did not play up to their par. It's fortunate for Tech that they did not, since even as it was only three of the hapless Engineers were able to win one game in the three-out-of-five game sets...
...Historian Gordon Craig, who calls them "a lot fresher than Princeton students." But the brains behind the tanned, healthy faces are getting sharper than the curriculum, which needs revision to fit them. The untaxing overseas courses, for example, are often labeled "inane." Humanities need to be put on a par with science. Stanford's new boys and girls also chafe at Stanford's quaint old ways. Liquor is banned and so is "partisan politics," which means that Nixon and Brown can speak on campus, but their supporters cannot...