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...back the surging gallery; on all sides, TV cameras zeroed in to carry the scene to 9,000,000 home viewers across the nation. But Jack Nicklaus might have been alone on a practice green for all the emotion he displayed. Intently, impassively, he hunched over his 2-ft. putt. Daintily, deliberately, he stroked the ball toward the hole. When it plunked safely into the cup, he permitted himself a change of expression-a boyish grin and tip of his cap to the crowd. With that putt, at 22 and in his first year as a professional golfer, burly Jack...
...amateur," he said, "I played nothing but good courses, with good greens and dependable grasses. But as a pro, you have to play all kinds of courses - many of them awful. I had to find different clubs, learn a lot of new shots. I had to learn to putt from off the green. I had to change my putter. I've always used one with a very light blade; it was fine for the fast greens I played on as an amateur. But as a pro, I had to be ready for any kind of green." The weather, said...
...score Harvard 3 and Princeton 3. Seckel smashed his six from to within ten feet of the stick while Livingood pulled his shot slightly to the left fringe of the green about forty feet away. Livingood then took three to get down when his tricky four foot second putt failed to drop, and Seckel holed out in two for a match-winning par. Livingood, however, over-whelmed his Brown opponent...
...hopeless: he needed two birdies merely to stay alive for a three-way play-off with Player and Finsterwald. Then, at the 16th green, Palmer got his miracle: he pitched a 50-yd. chip into the cup for a birdie. Keyed up now, he stepped up to a null putt on the 17th -and banged it straight into the hole for his second straight birdie. On the 18th green, both Player and Palmer played cautiously for pars, solemnly shook hands and-the tension broken-began to laugh. For the first time in the Masters' flamboyant history, three players were...
...uncertain twilight, Carl Jerome Barber squinted cautiously down the shaft of his putter at the ball. A long 60 ft. stretched between him and the cup, and Dallas Pro Don January, 31, would take the P.G.A. first money if Barber missed. Barber didn't miss. He sank his putt and a tie was his. In the play-off next day, holing long putts with fresh assurance. Jerry Barber finished one stroke ahead of January to become, at 45, the oldest and smallest golfer ever to win the P.G.A. tournament...