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Tapping golf balls across a green a couple of years back, Jim Flood, 49, flipped his putter around, swung a few times and achieved pleasant results. The president and chief tinkerer of a San Diego-based golf-equipment firm retired to his shop and emerged with the Basakwerd, a putter with a head that points toward the body. It demands a square stroke of the ball that literally forces the player to use a textbook swing. Or so the theory goes. Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game...
...year sentence on drug and gun charges, testified last week that he could not possibly be guilty. Reason: on the morning the judge was shot dead in front of his San Antonio town home, said Harrelson, he had been in Dallas, running some extraordinary errands: returning a golf putter he had borrowed to determine how much cocaine he could hide in its shaft for a drug-smuggling scheme, buying a cashier's check to pay for a car he had bought under an assumed name, and collecting some gambling debts. Government prosecutors charge that Harrelson, 44, convicted once...
...Nicklaus, who is in the throes of it at 42, won for the first time in two years last month with the steadying aid of his 19-year-old son Steve, who caddied and read his putts. Hogan got to the chilling point where he could scarcely draw the putter blade back. "I've seen Ben smoke a whole cigarette over a 6-ft. putt," said Snead with a shiver. "Once you get the 'yips,' you never lose them." For almost ten years now Sam has been putting "sidesaddle." Literally and figuratively, he is the only great...
...world, though not as good as Nicklaus used to be, and a very attractive fellow too, just not as compelling as Palmer. There are yet one or two colorful characters around: old Chi Chi Rodriguez, still wearing an imaginary scabbard on one hip for sheathing his trusty putter; and aging clown Lee Trevino, whose sense of humor is mercurial. But golf's color at the moment is not especially good. Peripatetic South African Gary Player is fading. His excursions to the U.S. last year fetched him only...
Teammate and fellow shot putter Marie Acacia agrees with Hunt that Johnson could throw much further than she does, and she as serts: "When Km makes up her mind to do it, she's there. Kim's only problem is in her mind--I think she's scared of being better than...