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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...
...birdied the next hole, a 492-yard par five, by dropping a short putt after a fine wedge shot. He made a routine par on the wide-open 18th and then moved on to the first...
Brown had beaten Penn, 5-2, and barely lost to Yale, a traditional Ivy power. Yet, if Tom Wynne's opponent at number six had not sunk a long putt on the 18th hole to win 1-up, the Harvard team would have blanked the Bruins. Of the other Crimson golfers, only Roger Wales (seven) had difficulty, winning in a 19th hole play...