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...hernias like it too. TV covers golf well. Every stroke is adeptly photographed and clearly visible, far more pleasant to pursue with the eyes than by trotting around a course fighting the masses with a cardboard periscope. Advertisers have discovered giddy new meaning in the old term pitch-and-putt...
...aluminum plaque to commemorate an event that Palmer would just as soon forget. In 1961. gambling for an eagle on the hole, he hit four balls out of bounds, wound up with a twelve. "What happened?" asked a solicitous friend. Replied Palmer, with remarkable good humor: "I missed a putt for an eleven...
Last week golf's reigning king got his revenge. His tee shots caromed 300 yds. and more down Rancho's rock-hard fairways, his approach shots died quietly inches from the pin, and his putts banged boldly into the cup. At first, other pros hogged the headlines: smooth-swinging Gene Littler led briefly; aging (52 ) Dutch Harrison flashed enough of his old form to take the second-round lead; and Art Wall, the 1959 Masters winner, shot a third-round 67, four strokes under par. But the gallery paid little attention. By the time Palmer teed...
...money was there, and so was the competition. Grim and intent, Arnie Palmer complained before the match: "It doesn't seem fair that a single missed putt should cost you $35,000." Nicklaus did nothing to ease the tension; he insisted on calling it "a tournament," and a big one at that. "The way I see it," said he, "this tournament ranks right behind the U.S. Open now. The one who wins it has a real claim to being the best...
Said Thompson last week, declining to disclose how much he had made or lost on the venture: "For the sake of international relations, we will stoke up Bon Jour and putt off into the night." Building up steam, Thompson achieved at least one thing. Though it still bans commercials, the state radio is playing noticeably lighter music...