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...even for an old pro like Dan Gurney, who has raced everything from putt-putting go-karts to the snorting monsters of Indianapolis. "You can't get confused," says Gurney. "You can even yell at the other drivers." At the Bahamas Speed Weeks, while martini glasses tinkled and bountiful blondes chased their heroes through the pits, Gurney took the wheel of a bright orange Volkswagen and challenged all comers in a 103-mile race. His car was a 1956 sedan with 250,000 miles on the speedometer. It was, in fact, his personal car in Nassau-and his wife...
...which got so thick that play was cut to 63 holes and cars had to be parked around the greens with their headlights shining. On the very first hole, a 456-yd. par five, Nicklaus reached the green with a drive and a No. 8 iron, and sank his putt for an eagle. But after three days, the best that Jack and Arnie could manage was a first-place tie with Spain's Sebastian Miguel and Ramon Sota. Nicklaus was spraying his approaches, and Palmer's putting was, in his own word, "terrible." Grunted Nicklaus: "The prestige...
...hanging around him since vaudeville days. He is a kind of universal uncle, likable and humane. Everywhere, that is, but on a golf course. There he is an amiable, hard-eyed, all-American savage. You can wait until snow forms on your head before he will give you a putt...
...tournament in the Sahara Desert?" groused one pro, when the temperature on the 7,046-yd. Dallas Athletic Club course soared to 110°. Three golfers quit midway through the second round because of heat exhaustion. Arnold Palmer shot a first-round 74, and moaned that he could not putt on the club's "awful" greens. Australia's Bruce Crampton complained bitterly about the noise of Palmer's gallery, "standing around chewing sandwiches." South Africa's tense Gary Player, the defending P.G.A. champion, never got within seven strokes of the leaders; but when he missed...
...blasted boldly out of the dry, soft traps, handled the wiry Bermuda rough with ease. But in the end it was Nicklaus' putting that won for him. Trailing Australia's Crampton by three strokes with 18 holes to play, Nicklaus ran in an 18-ft. putt for an eagle on the first hole; he sank a 12-footer for a birdie on the eighth hole, and rammed home a 30-ft. putt on the 15th. That gave him another birdie, a one-stroke lead-and the tournament...