Word: putterers
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...field, South African Forward Dick Putter was cut in the mouth by one missile, and as a bottle spun toward Referee Piet Myburgh, a husky Australian saved him with a flying tackle. After play resumed, South Africa won, 22 to 6. The score among the spectators: six whites and 20 nonwhites hospitalized, two nonwhites arrested, 40 cars in the parking lot damaged from rocks rained onto them from the black stands...
...impressed one U.S. Air Force general as "easy and outgoing, an extravert who got along very well." West Pointers found him "spoony"-meaning suave. He played a cool, quiet game of golf at the Army-Navy Club, his balding, white-fringed head bent over his putter as generals and admirals chatted...
...older, it began to look as if he might not win another. His shoulders ached from bursitis; tendon trouble swelled his fingers until they looked, someone said, "like sausages left too long on the broiler." To top it off, somebody swiped his favorite eleven-year-old putter in Augusta last April...
...next day's final round at Pebble Beach, Duden got a chance to demonstrate his putter before a nationwide TV audience. Right up until the final hole, his awkward but accurate style kept him in red hot contention. On the 18th hole, he needed a 25-footer for a total of 285 that, as it turned out, would have tied him with Billy Casper for the $5,300 top prize. But then his touch left him. He missed the 25-footer, blew his second putt, finally settled for seventh money of $1,400, behind Casper and five other players...
Would Duden's odd-shaped putter start a new fad? Golfers will buy anything-and Duden claims to have peddled 1,800 copies (at $15 apiece) through pro shops in the past three years. "Putting between your legs is good-it allows you to view the ball and its intended line of roll with both eyes," says a Philadelphia clubmaker. But there is one problem. "It also gets other golfers laughing, and that's embarrassing. It puts more pressure on the putter-and he's got enough already...