Word: putts
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...kills Hope to concede a putt, too. Most players will do so if the distance between ball and cup is "within the leather"-the length measured from the bottom of the handgrip to the club head. Not Bob; he always insists on measuring with whatever club has the longest grip...
There is no telling what the score might have been if Nicklaus' putter had been hot. Twice in the next eight holes he hung birdie putts on the lip of the cup; on the 15th, he blew an easy 41-footer and took a bogey. But he birdied the llth, and 13th and the 14th, and on the 495 yd., par-five 17th, he collected his second eagle-covering those 495 yds. with a drive, a No. 4 iron and a 12-ft. putt. With a par on the 18th, Jack was finished. His score: 33 on the front...
Playing It Safe. For 18 wondrous holes, while Casper sprayed his tee shots, Fleckman blew sky-high and Palmer could not buy a birdie putt, Nicklaus was magnificent. He birdied the third hole from 12 ft., the fourth from 4 ft., the fifth from 14 ft., the seventh from 22 ft., the eighth from 4 ft., the 13th from 4 ft., the 14th from 5 ft. In all, he used only 29 putts. With a four-stroke lead and only the par-five 542-yd. 18th left to play, Jack decided to take no chances...
...tall Vary had a 15-foot putt starting him in the face, which he needed to sink at 18 for a par which would tie his match. The Deerfield grad stepped up and sent the ball in the hole to set up a repeat of the varsity contest, where the seventh match similarly went into overtime. This time, on the first extra hole, Vary hit his second shot into a trap and bogeyed, while his Yalie foe parred for the victory, a disheartening one for the Crimson...
Twice within a month-at the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions and at last week's Houston Champions International-Frank Beard, a bespectacled 28-year-old, has sunk a sizable putt on the 72nd green to beat Arnold Palmer for the winner's check. Considering that Palmer, at 37 and with $87,073 already in his till this year, is playing the best golf of his career, those two defeats are all the more remarkable because they were engineered by a virtual unknown who turned to golf because he was a failure at basketball...