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Coolly, Joyce addressed the ball, tapped it toward the cup-and saw it run wide. A quick grin burst across the blonde's broad face. "Oh, boy," she sighed, "that was agony!" By the slim margin of a single stroke-the dinky putt that Joyce Ziske missed-beaming, Carolina-born Betsy Rawls, 32, had won her fourth U.S. Women's Open, adding 1960 to her victories in 1951, 1953 and 1957. No woman golfer, not even the incomparable Babe Didrikson Zaharias,* had done that before...
...tension of watching their competitors hole out in the final stages of a big tournament. They sweat it out in the clubhouse locker room. But as husky Joyce Ziske clumped confidently onto the 18th green at the Worcester, Mass. Country Club last week needing only a 5-ft. putt to tie the U.S. Women's Open, a nervous, long-legged blonde moved to the edge of the crowd and prayed silently: "Miss it! Please miss...
...opening day Palmer arrived at the 17th needing only one birdie for a four-under-par 69. which would have put him in second place, two strokes behind Mexico's Roberto de Vicenzo. Charging for his birdie, Palmer overstroked his first putt; it ran 7 ft. past the cup. Normally a coldly precise putter. Palmer lost his poise, missed his return, and ended the round with a 70. Next day Palmer again three-putted the 17th. and his score of 71 dropped him seven strokes behind De Vicenzo, five behind Australia's balding Kelvin Nagle. Tense and disgusted...
...holes, Arnold Palmer summoned his strength for a last-ditch effort. He birdied the 13th, gained a stroke. As Nagle faltered, Palmer came to the Road Hole-and overshot the green with his second stroke. But he pitched back to within 4 ft. of the pin, calmly canned his putt for-at long last-a birdie...
...just 11½ in. short of his world record. Patriarch of the U.S. whales, Shotputter Parry O'Brien, 28, a gold medal winner in both 1952 and 1956, this year had lost time and again. But with the pressure on, O'Brien won with a putt of 62 ft. 6¼ in., 3 ft. ¾ in. off the world record...