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...over a respectable 6,578 yds. That doesn't make it all that easy; most of the 52 golfers in last week's tournament were pressed to stay close to regulation figures. Not Gary Player. Gary started the tournament by sinking a 10-ft. putt for an eagle on the par-five, 493-yd. first hole. Five birdies, a par and two more birdies gave him a fantastic 28- nine under par-for the front nine. The back nine was prac tically a debacle by comparison; Player had to settle for an 18-hole score of 62, Biting...
...Gary Player, 29: the World Series of Golf, sinking a 51 -ft. putt on the 35th hole to sew up a three-stroke victory over Jack Nicklaus, and $50,000, golf's biggest prize; in Akron, Ohio. Winner of the U.S. Open, and a gentleman farmer from Magoebaskloff, South Africa, Player headed straight home (via chartered jet to New York, airlines the rest of the way), remarking: "I've got 1,000 trout in my fishponds, and I need all of them because Jack Nicklaus is coming over in February to fish...
...quite accurate to say that Ross Sobel has been playing pro golf for 49 years without ever winning a tournament. In 1922, he beat Willie MacFarlane for a new suit of clothes in the John David Invitational-a pitch-and-putt tournament that was played in midtown Manhattan on the cutting floor of a men's clothing store. "It wasn't as easy as it sounds," says Sobel. "The greens were trapped with buckets of sand and water, and I had to shoot a 40-ft. hole...
...flunky, golf-club and software salesman, caddy master and teaching pro before setting out five years ago on the tournament trail. He won $12,066 his first year, was up to $37,142 last year, and got his first real taste of glory when he sank a 30-ft. putt to tie Nicklaus for second place (behind Arnold Palmer) in the 1964 Masters...
...last week, Dave was clinging shakily to a two-stroke lead when Nicklaus sank an 18-ft. chip shot from off the green. "That made me hot," Marr said later. "I decided I wasn't going to let him win. To hell with him." Dave promptly canned his putt. On the 18th he dropped his approach 3 ft. from the pin and got the shakes all over again. "I told myself, 'C'mon, make it, finish like a champion is supposed to finish. Don't putt short, just tap it in and walk off like...