Word: putts
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...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...
Buzz Off. There was Arnie on the sixth green in the final round with an easy 3-ft. putt. Ever so carefully, he addressed the ball, mindful of the fact that as the round began, South Africa's Gary Player was only a stroke behind. Enter the bee-to light smack on Arnie's ball. He frowned, stepped back, muttered for the critter to buzz off. Eventually, the message got through. But as the bee departed, Palmer, standing five feet away, saw the ball move-maybe the width of a blade of grass. Oh Lord! Three weeks before...
...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...
...contention. On the 18th hole, he needed a 25-footer for a total of 285 that, as it turned out, would have tied him with Billy Casper for the $5,300 top prize. But then his touch left him. He missed the 25-footer, blew his second putt, finally settled for seventh money of $1,400, behind Casper and five other players. Even then he did better than Arnold Palmer, who wound up shooting a 293, was later disqualified for playing a provisional ball illegally in the third round...