Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brian McGuinn, grabbed a one-hole lead on All-American Ned Snyder with a par on the 17th. But McGuinn three-putted the last green for a sky-high seven and lost the 530-yard 18th hole to the Eli captain's bogey to set up a playoff...
...only to sink a perfectly straight 6-ft. putt on the 72nd hole to take home the $20,000 first prize; he missed, settled for a tie with Nicklaus and Tommy Jacobs, and shot a horrendous 78 for third place and $8,300 in the next day's playoff. In last week's Tournament of Champions at the Desert Inn Country Club, Gay had a five-stroke lead with only 18 holes to go, and Las Vegas bookmakers were offering 7 to 1 that even Btfsplk Brewer could not blow that $20,000 title. They should have known...
...playoff was almost anticlimactic. Now the 8 to 5 favorite of the bookies, Palmer birdied the very first hole; by the end of the first nine, he was already two strokes up. Rattled, Brewer drove into the rough on the par-five tenth, dubbed his second shot, knocked his third 20 ft. over the green, chipped 12 ft. short of the hole and missed the putt. He wound up with a 73, and Arnie's second straight 69 gave him a four-stroke victory. Gay tried hard to live up to his name as he accepted the second-place...
...Canadiens moved into a 3-0 lead in their NHL playoff series on goals by Ralph Backstrom, Bobby Rousseau, Terry Harper, John Ferguson, and Jean Beliveau...
Goals by Chico Maki and Eric Nesterenko gave the Black Hawks a 2-1 edge in their playoff series...