Word: rosburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cameras picked up the golfers at the 13th tee in each of the two rounds, at one point kept the trio waiting for ten minutes while the sponsors (Zenith, Amana home freezers) got in their plugs. Technicians drummed distractions on the TV towers, and former P.G.A. Champ Bob Rosburg, who was announcing the show, often told the players what club to use on a shot. Said Nicklaus: "I heard Rosburg say I'd probably use a five iron on the 16th, so to spite him I used a four...
...passably well as a money player -$18,865 in 1955, $21,909 last year-but never quite made it to the top. In the 1959 P.G.A. at Minneapolis, he faltered and bogied the last two holes, dropped into a tie for second behind San Francisco's Bob Rosburg. Last year Barber's putter carried him to victory in the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions. But he wanted the P.G.A. and last week got it, along with the $11,000 first money. All the hard years now seem worthwhile. "I'm still enthusiastic about golf," says Barber...
...Seven strokes down when he started the final round, California's rotund Bob Rosburg, 34, played his steady game while the front runners collapsed, one by one, then sank a 14-ft. putt for a birdie on the final green to capture first-place money of $5,300 in the $50,000 Bing Crosby tournament at Pebble Beach. Calif...
...ROSBURG, 33, is one of the most improbable of the younger stars. With small, weak hands, he has to pass up the pro's usual finger-entwined grip and just grab the club as though it were a baseball bat. Sweat fogs his glasses until he looks like a myopic insurance adjuster out for a Sunday round. He has muscle spasms in his back, an uncertain stomach. He once developed a skin allergy to leather: his hands broke out when he grasped the leather grips of his clubs. BUt Rosburg (5 ft. 11 in., 185 Ibs.), a second baseman...
...bounce than a cold one. They share in the physical ailments of their profession: back trouble from the constant twisting of the spine (Finsterwald, Marty Furgol); a torn tendon along the third finger of the left hand that exposes a nerve, keeps a player from gripping his club firmly (Rosburg, Snead, Jack Burke Jr.). They share in their social life. Driving some 35,000 miles a year on the tour that begins in January with the Los Angeles Open and ends in December at the Coral Gables (Fla.) Open, professional golfers hunt first for motels with swimming pools...