Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense, especially new goalie Barry Goldstein, has improved steadily, and by the end of the season, Kirkland could be the team to beat in the new four team playoff...
...final hole, he was still two under par for the tournament, tied with Billy Casper and barely two strokes behind his playing partner, Dave Marr, a journeyman golfer who had not won a tournament since 1962. A birdie for Nicklaus and a bogie for Marr would mean a playoff. Teeing off for the 470 yd. par-four, Marr hooked his drive into a fairway trap, while Nicklaus slammed one 300 yds deadcenter. But after all those years, Marr was not about to throw it away. With a beautiful recovery and approach, he salvaged his par, and Jack missed his birdie...
...double-bogeyed the 15th hole, taking four to get down from a trap off the green. That gave Player a three-stroke lead-which he politely relinquished by three-putting the 16th. After 18, they were all even with a 72-hole total of 282-two over par. Playoff...
...admiring crowd of 25,000 turned out to trail Jack around the course. Tied with Player for second place at eight under par, Arnie Palmer buttonholed Tournament Director Clifford Roberts. "Mr. Roberts," he cracked, "how about letting Gary and me double our scores so we can have a playoff with Jack?" Even that wouldn't have been enough. Sporting a floppy white hat for which he had to shell out $6.50 at the pro shop ("it would sell for $3 anyplace else"), chatting casually with spectators lining the fairways, Nicklaus fired a last-round 69 that gave...
...plenty last week: two victories in eight days. At Pensacola, he sank a 35-ft. birdie putt on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff to beat Jack Nicklaus for the $10,000 winner's check. At the Doral Open in Miami, he fired a five-under-par 67 in the final round and picked up $11,000 more. That boosted his official 1965 winnings to $27,332, tops on the tour by $11,000 over Billy Casper. Now there was an excuse for a party. "I climbed out of the Mr. Clean bottle on Sunday," says Doug...