Word: putts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compact golf is several things. It is "pitch-and-putt," where the average hole is 50 yds.; "par-three" (also called "par-thirty" and "executive''), in which the average hole is 150 yds., with several par-four holes; and putting courses, also known as miniature golf...
...major mass-producer is Don Clayton, 37, of Fayetteville, N.C. An insurance mortgage broker nine years ago, he built his first course during an ulcer-enforced vacation, added a second within weeks, and took in around $13,000 during his first year of business. Clayton's Putt-Putt Golf Courses Inc. has more than 350 courses going in 36 states (plus Panama, Japan, Okinawa and Canada), and he expects to add 45 more this year. Cost per course is from $6,500 to $44,000, plus the standard $200 franchise fee and a straight 3% of the gross...
...Nicklaus played so slowly that he reminded fellow pros of "a turtle in leg irons." One after another, they took their shots at the big blond who had just turned 23. On the 15th hole, Sam Snead who, at 50, was playing in his 24th Masters, sank a birdie putt and learned that he had jumped into the lead. But on the next hole, Snead three-putted for a bogey and dropped back into the pack. Gary Player led Nicklaus briefly; but he bogeyed the last two holes, and that...
...Complaint. Needing a birdie four to tie Palmer on the 18th and final hole. Player seemed to have it made. His putt was an easy four-footer. But his playing partner, Don January, had left a putt teetering precariously on the lip of the cup, and January said that he could see the ball moving. So he waited-for seven interminable minutes. Player was so unnerved that he blew his own 4-ft. putt, the match and a crack at the $5,300. "That putt wasn't going to drop-ever." he groused. "January had no right to wait...
...didn't he? Rule 25, section 1 firmly states that a player shall not hit a moving ball; January insisted that his was. But Rule 35, subsection 1-h, permits only a "momentary delay" to see whether the putt will drop or not. Player might have forced a ruling by complaining to the officials, but since he did not, January got away with...