Word: player
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bogeyed the 15th by missing an 8-ft. putt, and now he faced a 35-ft. downhill curler that could easily be the first of three putts. The hole, he said, "looked two miles away." Among the 12,000 onlopkers was South Africa's Gary Player, Floyd's playing partner and closest competitor, ready to take advantage of any slip. Floyd did not clutch. He calmly arranged his pudgy form over the ball and stroked it into the cup for a birdie. Admiringly, Player walked toward him and extended a congratulatory hand. The gesture was Player...
...ironic that Floyd had cinched matters with a putt, since putting had been his biggest hangup through all four rounds at the National Cash Register golf course at Dayton. He took a total of 121 strokes on the greens-six more than Player, five more than Bert Greene, who finished third, and eleven more than fourth place Jimmy Wright. Floyd really won the P.G.A. with his booming, if sometimes errant drives, and with his beautifully wrought iron play. He hit 59 greens in par, compared with Player's 53. There was another ingredient in Floyd's winning eight...
...Other Shoe. Gary Player, who has a reputation for being equally sure of himself, lost much of his aplomb at the P.G.A. He was the target of third-round harassment by an ad hoc civil rights group that felt the Dayton Chamber of Commerce might better have applied its energies to the city's ghetto problems than to sponsoring the P.G.A. tournament...
...point, a program was tossed at Player's feet as he was about to drive. When he walked to the tenth tee, someone threw a cup of Coke and ice in his face. Player turned to his tormentor and asked, "What have I done to you, sir?" A small group of dissidents rushed the tenth green as Player and Jack Nicklaus were preparing to putt. The interlopers were quickly hustled off. "The man who threw the Coke called me a racist," Player later complained. "Just because you're from South Africa, it doesn't mean...
...CHIC LIFE is a comedy about a middle-aged couple whose daughter comes home with her baby because it has caused her baseball-player husband to fall into a batting slump as well as a bad temper. The play was written by Arthur Marx, Groucho's son, and Robert Fisher, and features James Whitmore and Audra Lindley. Denver, Colo., Aug. 11-16; Mountainhome, Pa., Aug. 18-23; Dennis, Mass...