Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harney was obviously embarrassed about the whole thing when he showed up at Los Angeles' 6,840-yd. Rancho Park course to defend his title last week. "The odds against a repeat victory must be 1,000 to 1," he told reporters. Actually, they were nowhere near that bad: 15 to 1. Jack Nicklaus, 1964's top money winner (at $113,284) was sitting this one out. Of course, that still left Ken Venturi, Billy Casper, Tony Lema-and Arnold Palmer, who shot a 66 in practice and happily allowed as how he was playing "pretty good...
...British Opens and of more money in one year ($81,448 last season) than any other golfer in history, Palmer had played in the tournament seven times, had never finished better than tenth. On the 508-yd., par-5 ninth hole at Los Angeles' Rancho Municipal Golf Course, there is even an 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...
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...
Things are not quite that bad, but Torremolinos has become a real estate promoter's dream, with clusters of cottages selling for $5,000 to $10,000 apiece; billboards in the area advertise Motello Rancho, Serv-Inn, Miami in Europa. The tourists will leave some $700 million worth of hard currency...
Once the Hotel Rancho Las Cruces, it is now a private club with a list of eminent patrons. Dwight Eisenhower was there recently as the guest of Charles Jones, president of the Richfield Oil Co. W. Alton Jones, executive-committee chairman of Cities Service Co., was on his way to meet Ike there when he died in the plane crash at Idlewild with $62,690 in his pockets...