Word: pensacola
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...funny thing happened to Pete Cooper last week. A golf pro from Florida, Cooper played 72 holes at the Pensacola Country Club and scored 70, 71, 70 and 75 for a two-under-par total of 286. Yet, for those fine rounds, all poor Pete earned was the dubious distinction of finishing 82nd and last in the P.G.A. Pensacola Open. He was 24 strokes behind Gay Brewer, who shot 66, 64, 61 and 71 for an improbable...
...says Executive Director Joseph Dey Jr. "We want our tournament to be a true test of skill." That it is. The lowest score ever in the Open was the 276 shot by the magnificent "Wee Ice Mon," Ben Hogan, in 1948-14 strokes more than Gay Brewer took at Pensacola last week. Dey complains that the rash of low scores in P.G.A. tournaments "cheapens the concept of par." Both he and Jones insist that fans prefer to watch a golfer battle the hazards of a tough, demanding course-such as Georgia's 6,980-yd. Augusta National, site...
With 30-odd tournaments to stage each year, the Professional Golfers' Association is not always particularly choosy about where it books them. This year's Los Angeles Open was played on a mediocre public course, and the ridiculously low scoring at the Pensacola Open was hardly unexpected; at 6,380 yds., the Pensacola Country Club's flat, sun-baked 18 is little more than an oversized par-three course...
...Nicklaus to grouse: "We're playing from the ladies' tees." (They were.) The theory is that low scores attract fans. "People don't pay three and four and five bucks to watch us hacking out of the rough," says Ken Still, who finished fourth in the Pensacola Open...
...PENSACOLA GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). The final rounds from the Pensacola Country Club in Atlantic Beach...