Word: putters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...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...