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Last week, in California's $35,000 Bing Crosby tournament, Oregon's Bob Duden, 42, gave golfers something new to discuss. A little-known pro who has never won a major tournament, Duden uses a bent-shafted pendulum putter that he swings between his legs like a croquet mallet, in the same manner once espoused by a Mickey Finn comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot...
...double-bogey six. "It was.'' smiled Palmer, "an easy six." Again, on the par-3. 234yd. 17th, Palmer seemed in trouble. His No. 4 iron carried over the green on the nubby apron. 50 ft. from the pin. Palmer studied the lie. He pulled out a putter, punched the ball-and watched it roll smack into the cup for a birdie...
...their executives. As a result, Rolls's 1962 auto production is unlikely to top 1,800 cars, v. 2,400 last year. But the company remains unworried about its prospects-partly out of confidence in its "think house." a converted country lodge where 20 Ph.D.-level scientists putter about in a small laboratory. Out of the "think house" has come an idea that may hold great promise for Rolls's future-plans for a small auxiliary jet engine that can lift 16 times its own weight straight up. Rolls's hope is that as the supersonic...
Next day, Palmer's cold putter suddenly turned hot: he shot a three-under-par 69 that put him two strokes ahead of the fast-fading pack. The critical play came at the fearsome. 485-yd. eleventh hole-"the worst hole I've ever played," said Palmer-where three players already had scored sextuple-bogey elevens and Nicklaus later staggered to a ten. Splitting the narrow fairway with a No. 1 iron. Palmer sent a No. 2 iron shot whistling onto the green, just 20 ft. from the pin. Coolly, he stepped up and sank the putt...
After eight holes, grimacing, shaking his head, cursing his "crooked" putting. Palmer trailed Nicklaus by four strokes, and hundreds of his rooters streamed dejectedly toward the air-conditioned clubhouse bar. But at that moment, when his cause seemed most hopeless, Palmer's cold putter turned hot. Plagued all tournament long by putts that simply would not drop-including one eight-footer that hung stubbornly on the rim while he waited for 3½ minutes-Palmer now could not miss. He birdied the ninth and eleventh holes, holed another birdie on the twelfth, and sliced Nicklaus' margin...