Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't want to go over, and I left myself short about 30 ft. I couldn't see the cup because of a roll in the green, so I had the pin left in. I bounced it off the pin and dropped the second putt for a par...
Whipping the Woods. Next day Palmer was off form-for Palmer. Frowning and shaking his head, he missed putt after putt, finished the first nine two over par. But he whipped his woods and irons into shape, finished with a respectable 73, one over par. That was good enough for the lead-but only because of an odd penalty to another bright young pro, Dow Finsterwald, 30. Finsterwald, with a 69 for the first round and a 70 for the second, would have been a stroke ahead of Palmer. But after sinking a second-day putt, he started to take...
...still well out on the course when Venturi finished with a silky 70, giving him a 283 - or five under par - for the tournament. By the time he got to the 1 6th hole Palmer needed one birdie to tie, two to win. On the 16th he had to make a 20-ft. uphill putt for a birdie. He opted to leave the flag in the hole. The putt was true - but overstroked. It hit the flag and ricocheted away...
...Palmer was on target often enough to win the Palm Springs Classic and the Texas Open. It called for a spectacular change of pace at Pensacola, where he came from behind on moist, slow Gulf Coast greens, banked on long, bold putts to rack up a seven-under-par 65 in the second round to take the tournament by a single stroke...
Whatever happens when he returns, now that he has achieved the ultimate and made the funnies, it will be tough for Paar to top himself. But Bud Birdie (so named because a birdie is better than par) may do it. In future installments of On Stage, Cartoonist Leonard Starr has his nice but emotional hero ("I'm fighting the elements now!") plagued by offstage intrigue, and trying to figure out which of his official family is leaking unkind gossip to the columnists. Is it the lovable hayseed comedian, Tex McPrairie? Is it the suave announcer? Will Bud ever find...