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When he came home from a tournament last year, Billy Casper found his eight-year-old son tapping balls across the living-room rug with a mallet-head putter he had found lying around the house. Casper tried a few strokes, liked the feel of the club and decided to try it out in the Bob Hope Desert Classic. He won, and the putter has been in his bag ever since. Last week it won him the coveted Masters championship. His longest putts popped in as if the undulating greens were as level as his living-room...
Casper's chance discovery befits the mystique surrounding putting, the most delicate and distressingly difficult aspect of golf. In quest of an elusive "feel," professional golfers will try anything short of witchcraft to find the right putter. They experiment constantly, switching from wood shafts to glass, straight shafts to curved, aluminum heads to lead. In his heyday, Ben Hogan roamed the greens with a brass, center-shaft club the head of which was fashioned from an old doorknob. For a while Sam Snead tried putting between his legs, croquet style, with something that looked like an undernourished sledgehammer. Arnold...
Mental Refreshment. No one proves that adage better than Billy Casper. Known as the King of the Flat Blade, he is perhaps the best putter among all the great players in the game today. Though he likes to say that he attaches more importance to his driving, he will lecture for hours on the virtues of the "reverse overlap" putting grip, or the different consistencies of Bermuda and bent-grass greens. "If you don't putt well, it affects your whole game. It is the most delicate and precise thing you do," he says. "It takes more touch, more...
Weight-man Ed Nosal flung the 35. pound weight 59' 91/2" and putter Jake Driscoll pitched the shot 50' 1/2' for victories in their events. Harvard's hurdlers and sprinters snatched 16 of a possible 18 tallies in their races, as high hurdler Walter Johnson and 60-yard dash-man Ed Diamond broke the tapes in their sprints...
Benka has been undefeated in dual meet shot put competition since his sophomore year, and has set both indoor and outdoor Harvard records in the event this year. He became the first putter in Harvard history to hit the 60-foot mark when he threw his record-breaking 61 ft. 2 in. throw this winter...