Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the 18-hole playoff, Palmer blithely climbed into his own brown-and-white Aero Commander and flew home to Latrobe, Pa., "to get a change of socks." Back next day, he birdied three of the first six holes, shot a four-under-par 67, and won easily. For his work, Arnie collected $23,400 -$22,000 for winning the tournament, $550 for finishing fourth in a prelimi nary pro-amateur, plus an $850 cut of the play-off gate receipts. All told, in three short weeks Arnold Palmer had earned a cool $54,000 in official purses...
...there, but mostly getting his par. After 72 holes he was nine over at 293. No one did any better. With Brookline's bogeyman making their lives miserable, both Arnold Palmer and Jackie Cupit also wound up with 293. And so the Open went into a three-way playoff...
...California's Tony Lema: the $50,000 Memphis Open, by one stroke over Tommy Aaron in a sudden-death playoff. Married to an airline stewardess just one month, "Champagne Tony" shot a 10-under-par 270 to tie Aaron for the lead after 72 holes, won the tournament with a scrambling par 4 on the first extra hole, and lived up to his nickname by serving champagne in the pressroom afterward. Lema's $9,000 victory swelled his 1963 winnings to $44,296, second only to Jack Nicklaus ($57,615), who finished eleventh at Memphis, eight strokes back...
...their world championship form to 13,909 wildly approving fans, the Boston Celtics jumped to an early lead and held off late Los Angeles Laker rallies last night to defeat L.A. 113-106, giving the Celtics a commanding 2-0 lead in the best of seven National Basketball Association playoff finals...
...become axiomatic in pro basketball that the Boston Celtics win whenever the chips are down, and the chips were down last night. The Celtics wrecked Cincinnati 142 to 131 to win their seventh consecutive Eastern championship in the final game of the playoff series...