Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Willie Mays blasted two of four San Francisco Giant home runs as the Giants took the first N.L. pennant playoff game from the Dodgers, 8-0. Billy Pierce held the Los Angeles team to only three hits, bringing the Dodgers' total of scoreless innings...
...gives me strength"), Player looked like anything but confident: his eyes were red-rimmed, his face was ashen. Remembering that horrible week at the Masters tournament last April when he wound up tied with Palmer, then blew a big lead in the next day's 18-hole playoff, Player had not slept a wink. "I kept remembering that Masters playoff, and I began to worry," he said. "I don't want to be known as a choker." For 18 holes, he played a grim, conservative game, got only two birdies, only two bogeys...
...tense, head-to-head play-off before a hostile gallery, Nicklaus beat the world's best-known golfer, Arnold Palmer, grimly refusing to yield to a classic Palmer surge, and winning finally by the comfortable margin of three strokes, 71 to 74. To get into the playoff, Nicklaus had to defeat 148 top-ranked pros and amateurs, including Defending Open Champion Gene Littler. To beat them, he put together rounds of 72, 70, 72, 69 for a 72-hole total of 283 that tied the competitive course record* at Pennsylvania's Oakmont Country Club, one of the country...
...last week's Open-25,000 more than the old Open record. And with the swelling crowds comes big money. Ten years ago, Julius Boros took home $4,000 for winning the Open; last week Nicklaus won $15,000, plus an "unofficial" bonus of $2,500 for the playoff. Such is the excitement generated by big-money pro tournaments that publicity-minded business firms are getting into the act. Next September, at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Nicklaus, Palmer and two other golfers will perform in front of TV cameras in the most exclusive four-man tournament ever...
Visions of Grandeur. In the next day's playoff, everything seemed to favor Palmer. He had grown up in Latrobe, Pa., just 40 miles from Oakmont's rolling fairways, and he had played the course "at least 200 times" before. Winner of 33 tournaments, including the 1960 U.S. Open and last year's British Open, golf's reigning king was having his best year. With $60,331 already in the bank, he was-and still is-a good bet to smash his alltime money-winning record of $75,262, set in 1960. Having won his third...