Word: putts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson golf team meets M.I.T. today in what should prove to be an easy victory. Leading the Crimson will be Junior Jim Campen (3-1). His only loss this season came last week against Williams when his opponent sank a 25 foot putt on the 18th green to beat...
...course, seven under par. Demaret had not won a tournament in seven years; the closest he had come was second in the 1961 P.G.A. Seniors. Jimmy did not win at Palm Springs either-but he stubbornly clung to the lead until Tommy Jacobs beat him with a 9-in. putt in a sudden-death playoff. Jacobs is muscular, nervous and 28. Said Demaret: "I'm awfully glad that Tommy could win it. After all, he's almost through, and I've still got years...
...even for an old pro like Dan Gurney, who has raced everything from putt-putting go-karts to the snorting monsters of Indianapolis. "You can't get confused," says Gurney. "You can even yell at the other drivers." At the Bahamas Speed Weeks, while martini glasses tinkled and bountiful blondes chased their heroes through the pits, Gurney took the wheel of a bright orange Volkswagen and challenged all comers in a 103-mile race. His car was a 1956 sedan with 250,000 miles on the speedometer. It was, in fact, his personal car in Nassau-and his wife...
...which got so thick that play was cut to 63 holes and cars had to be parked around the greens with their headlights shining. On the very first hole, a 456-yd. par five, Nicklaus reached the green with a drive and a No. 8 iron, and sank his putt for an eagle. But after three days, the best that Jack and Arnie could manage was a first-place tie with Spain's Sebastian Miguel and Ramon Sota. Nicklaus was spraying his approaches, and Palmer's putting was, in his own word, "terrible." Grunted Nicklaus: "The prestige...
...hanging around him since vaudeville days. He is a kind of universal uncle, likable and humane. Everywhere, that is, but on a golf course. There he is an amiable, hard-eyed, all-American savage. You can wait until snow forms on your head before he will give you a putt...