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...textbook swing. Or so the theory goes. Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game. Arnold Palmer, 53, gave it a swing, and at the Los Angeles Open earlier this month Johnny Miller, 35, and three other pros were all Basakwerders, at least on a few greens. Says Gene Littler, 52, who has been using the putter the longest: "It makes you laugh when you see it, but use it and you'll stop laughing." Littler has. He boasts the lowest average number of strokes per round...
...make progress toward attaining a degree seems equally wise. Many heavily recruited athletes go to college primarily to train for the big leagues; that right should not be taken away from them if they are poor or Black or both. But most of them will fall short of the pros, and they will be better prepared for more conventional careers if colleges are forced to keep them in legitimate classes. It's the least the athletes deserve in exchange for four years of service in uniform...
...then the pace has slowed, and dedicated Tora-trekkies know that their hero will visit once in August and again just before the new year. Despite the speed at which they are made, the movies are surprisingly polished. After so much time on the assembly lines, the actors are pros, and Yamada keeps the action moving smartly...
German, Mexican, Polish and Norwegian sidewinders proliferated in the pros in the 1960s and '70s until Americans got the knack. In 1966 Cypriot Garo Yepremian's brother wrote to tell him about the land of milk and honey, and the soccer-style pioneer, Hungarian Pete Gogolak. Garo, a humble tiemaker, left home immediately to be a famous tie breaker. "The next thing I knew, I was a Detroit Lion," recalls Yepremian, who would serve four N.F.L. teams. "The first game I ever saw was in Baltimore against the Colts. I kicked off." Before the game, Yepremian...
Neither end denies, through, that his apprenticeship served a valuable purpose. "I never knew how important experience was," Fleming says. "You hear so much about how hard it is for rookies in the pros and you don't actually believe it. But there really is such a feel necessary for the game, and you don't have that right away...