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Last week at Ormond Beach she played her 40th consecutive day of tournament golf. She sank one 45-foot putt with a breezy exclamation, "Ain't that pretty?" She also won her sixth Florida tournament in six weeks. Muttered one spectator: "Whatta woman...
...other. Says Vines: "Golf takes less stamina, and less training. You get very tired playing tennis-but it is so fast that you have little time to think about each shot. I can forget a tennis match the minute it's over . . . but I remember a missed putt or a bad drive for hours...
...golfers to get off the next green, he calmly practiced putting on the hole just finished. On every difficult approach shot he walked up for a look ahead; on trap and green shots he sometimes went up to see how the shot looked backwards. On one three-quarter-inch putt last week, he went through all the footwork and club-positioning that he used on a ten-footer. After a match, he usually retired to Maniac Hill (the practice range) to work on some minor flaw. Ben Hojan seemed to thrive on tension and hard work...
...champ, caught the crowd's fancy. He wiggled his wide hips before lacing into every shot, but his woods and irons fell far short of easy-swinging Ted Bishop's. On the greens, 5 ft. 5 in. Quick did his brightest stuff. When he sinks a short putt, he usually dives for the ball just as it drops in. On hole No. 4, he chipped the ball from 60 feet, ran after it all the way to the cup; it sank for a birdie...
...course in his first two matches. In the third he polished off Herman Barren with a nine under par net for 34 holes. But Nelson could not hold the pace. He battled Ed ("Porky") Oliver down to the last green in the quarterfinals, then conceded the decisive 8-inch putt. Newsmen expected to hear him complain of his aching back. Instead he said simply: "My back never bothered me at all. I lost to a man who shot better golf...