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...find out if they are secure or uptight, honest or treacherous. McCormack says that a person reveals a lot in the way he treats a waiter at a business lunch, decorates his office or even plays a round of golf. Look out for someone who thinks that any putt of 6 ft. or less is a "gimme...
...special. It never happened," he said after the playoff. "I feel disappointed and hollow." While it is the nature of contests that today's defeat can make yesterday's victory seem meaningless, neither a 160-yd., 6-iron shot into the 18th grandstand nor a 40-ft. putt into the 72nd hole will ever leave Norman completely...
Making a 68-ft. putt without trying to, Zoeller took a three-stroke lead on the second hole. Norman three-putted three of the first five, and the most meaningful championship in golf turned into a brisk 3-hr. 15-min. walk. When Zoeller missed a birdie putt near the close of his handsome 67, Norman in jest made the sort of choking sign that professional basketball players flash to each other in earnest. Then he went to his own ball. "Knock it in," Fuzzy said softly...
...positively. Only one senior tournament is televised, but real estate deals and deductible charities are involved. The trail of the old golfers is defined by condominiums, and, on two Pro-Am days a week, wealthy hackers or executives with expense accounts pay several thousand dollars apiece to have their putts read by Sam Snead, 71. "The funny thing is," Snead says without laughing, "my right eye is gone: no depth perception at all. I have to walk to the cup to see if a putt is uphill or down...
...fours, memories are almost enough. There is Mike Souchak. In 1960, when Palmer became Palmer, Souchak could have won the U.S. Open, and everything might have been different. Next to him is Orville Moody, whose only tour victory was the 1969 Open, about the last time he made a putt. Then Doug Sanders, who lost the British Open in 1970 on a 2½-footer. "Sometimes I go as long as five minutes," Sanders says, "without thinking about that." The rookie, Dave Marr, muses down the row, "Jack Burke, Jay Hebert, Paul Runyan [61, 61 and 75], they all touched...