Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual content of Playboy is at least on a par with the pretentiously overstated content of a TIME Essay. The prurient appeal of an overripe foldout is no worse than the peekaboo enticement of gossip about "People." The humor of a Playboy cartoon is often more sophisticated than the cleverness of TIMEse...
...until he won a tournament or until his birth day on July 24-whichever came first. "It was," he says, "in the nature of a sacrifice." Then he went out with his spraddle-legged, short-backswing "telephone booth" stroke, and won the Doral Open itself, with a nine-under-par 275 for 72 holes, which gave him a one-stroke victory...
...after a suitable celebration, it was back to orange juice and back to golf: the $115,000 Citrus Open in Orlando, Fla. "I'm beginning to love that citrus," said Sanders, who took only 25 putts in 18 holes, on his first round, shot two straight five-under par 66s to take a two-stroke lead after 36 holes...
...last week, he had not swung a golf club professionally for a month. So on the first tee at Pebble Beach he belted an iron shot 220 yds. straight down the center of the fairway. He hit every green in regulation figures (one stroke for parthrees, two for par-fours, three for parfives), fired a three-under-par 69 that he called "one of the best rounds I have ever shot in this tournament...
...Pacific at 40 m.p.h., bending flag sticks over until the tips touched the ground. Nicklaus double-bogied three straight holes in the wind, and groaned: "I don't remember doing anything like that since I was ten years old." He still managed five birdies and a one-over-par 73 to hold the halfway lead by a comfortable two strokes. Every pro golfer has his own notions about what makes a good golf course -and few of them apparently agree with famed Architect Robert Trent Jones, who designed Spyglass Hill, the third course on which last week...