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Displaying the steely intensity that has characterized his approach to the game, Player rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the amphitheater 18th green for a resounding...
Green, who led most of the way, needed a birdie on the 72nd hole to force a sudden-death playoff. He ladled an 8-iron approach to within three feet of the flagstick. Then he jabbed the pivotal putt to the left of the cup and Player had earned his third green Masters jacket...
After he sank his birdie putt on 18 on Sunday, Player, whose demeanor is akin to that of the dour Scotch pros of old, erupted into a victory jig. He also punched the air in triumph. This is a common gesture nowadays, but before the 21-year-old Gary Player joined the U.S. tour in 1957, it had never been seen in America...
Dales never committed a miscue en route to humbling the 7,000-yard-long Hickory Ridge course. He parred every hole going out except for the second, where a three-putt cost him a bogey...
...their teens and early 20s. The result is an aggressive, charging style of play that threatens to leave some of the tour's conservative veterans by the wayside. Says one longtime observer: "When I watched the L.P.G.A. ten years ago, it seemed that almost everyone played long putts short and safe. Now with the young ones, when they miss a putt, the ball is on the other side of the hole. They're trying for birdies...