Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kroll, 43, who had not won a major tournament since 1956 (the year he was pro golf's top money-winner with $72,835), shot a ten-under-par 278 to win a two-stroke victory in the $30,000 Canadian Open. Kroll's victory was worth $4,300. U.S. Open Champion Jack Nicklaus (TIME cover, June 29) collected fifth-place money of $1,450, preserved his remarkable record of having finished in the money in every P.G.A. tournament...
...could get a shot of U.S. Open Champ Jack Nicklaus, the usually affable Arnie flushed angrily, growled, "Hell, no." Exhausted from his record-smashing triumph fortnight ago in the British Open, his feathery putting touch turned leaden. Palmer wound up tied for 17th with an 8-over-par 288. Just about everybody had at least one bad round-all but Gary Player. Sacrificing distance for accuracy, Player switched from a driver to a No. 3 wood for tee shots, began a methodical assault on par. He shot a brilliant second-round 67, added a third-round 69 that gave...
...playoff, Player had not slept a wink. "I kept remembering that Masters playoff, and I began to worry," he said. "I don't want to be known as a choker." For 18 holes, he played a grim, conservative game, got only two birdies, only two bogeys, for a par 70. Par was just good enough to finish one stroke ahead of Bob Goalby, runner-up in the 1961 U.S. Open, two ahead of burly Jack Nicklaus...
Next day, Palmer's cold putter suddenly turned hot: he shot a three-under-par 69 that put him two strokes ahead of the fast-fading pack. The critical play came at the fearsome. 485-yd. eleventh hole-"the worst hole I've ever played," said Palmer-where three players already had scored sextuple-bogey elevens and Nicklaus later staggered to a ten. Splitting the narrow fairway with a No. 1 iron. Palmer sent a No. 2 iron shot whistling onto the green, just 20 ft. from the pin. Coolly, he stepped up and sank the putt...
...Most people get flustered when Palmer does this and start bogeying. Don't be an idiot. Remember, you've played twelve holes and you're one up-that's all that counts. Just play your own game. Palmer can bogey them too.' " On the par-three, 161-yd. 13th hole, Palmer did just that: he underclubbed himself, hit the green 40 ft. short of the pin and three-putted...