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...first drive sailed into a water hazard. The sportsman then proceeded to tee up a new ball, whack it onto the green, and three-putt the par-three hole. Next he shot a seven in a par-four situation and a six on another par-four hole, winding up with a very inefficient seven-over-par. Too bad for General Francisco Franco, 73, who commands quite a few things in Spain, but not the golf courses. As he left the new links at Sotogrande near Gibraltar, Franco asserted himself. The two-hole course on his estate outside Madrid obviously wasn...
...played well enough to have a shot at winning," said Nicklaus, going into the fourth round. Even so, he came within a hairbreadth. On the 400-yd. 17th hole he laid his No. 9-iron second shot just 40 in. from the hole. Incredibly, he bungled the birdie putt. On the 420-yd. 18th, his second shot left him 40 ft. from the pin; his long curling putt for a birdie slid an inch past the cup. The tap-in gave him an even-par 288, locked him in a three-way tie with Jacobs and Gay Brewer...
...Brewer, the match was over quickly: he three-putted on the second hole, wound up with a 78. Jacobs' undoing was the tenth: he chipped short, two-putted for a bogey. That gave Nicklaus a stroke-which he increased to two by rolling in a 25-ft. birdie putt on the eleventh green. Finally, only the tree-lined 18th was left. "Two shots can disappear awfully fast," Nicklaus reminded himself, and he decided to play it safe-aiming his drive straight into the jampacked gallery on the left. Then he hit his only really bad shot...
...18th fairway, wound up stymied behind a tree. Whereupon Massengale pulled a No. 8 iron from his bag, said a silent prayer and swung. The ball sailed straight through a hole in the branches and landed on the green only 4 ft. from the pin. The easy birdie putt gave him a one-stroke victory worth...
...Next day he cut his score to a five-under 66, and in the third round he was the old Arnold Palmer. His tee shots carried 310 yds. or more, and his putting was uncanny: twelve times in 18 holes he got down with one putt. Rattling off seven straight birdies-just one shy of the P.G.A. record-he shot a nine-under 62, opened up a seven-stroke gap on the field. "What's Arnie trying to do-lap the rest of us?" demanded Paul Harney, who had won the tournament the last two years...