Word: putters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminded himself, and he decided to play it safe-aiming his drive straight into the jampacked gallery on the left. Then he hit his only really bad shot of the day, a hooked No. 7-iron that wound up in a patch of dirt below the green. Pulling a putter from his bag, Jack ran the ball to within 6 ft. of the pin, sank the putt for a 70, a two-stroke victory...
Number one man Brian McQuinn should take two points today and shifty Mike Millis, even if his putter is only lukewarm, ought to take both his matches...
Maryland, ending Villanova's four-year hold on the indoor crown, won the meet easily behind first-place finishes by high-jumper Frank Costello 6 ft. 10 in.), broad-jumper Ed Marks (24-10 3-4), pole-vaulter Tom Gagner (15-4), and shot-putter Ernie Hearon...
...first thing everybody noticed when Arnie arrived at Los Angeles' Rancho Municipal Golf Course was that he was back on cigarettes, after a year of trying to give them up. He was also belting his drives with fresh gusto, and he was using a new putter. On the first day, he limbered up with a so-so 72. Next day he cut his score to a five-under 66, and in the third round he was the old Arnold Palmer. His tee shots carried 310 yds. or more, and his putting was uncanny: twelve times in 18 holes...
...bleak coast of Liverpool Bay. It was at Royal Birkdale that Thomson won his first British Open in 1954-when Arnold Palmer was still an amateur and Jack Nicklaus was in junior high school. Palmer was there last week, gunning for his third British Open with a brand-new putter and the happy air of a man who has given up trying to give up smoking. So was Nicklaus, grimly "desperate" he said, to win the only one of pro golf's four top titles (others: the U.S. Open, the Masters, the P.G.A.) that had eluded...