Word: snead
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Jack Nicklaus stood off fourth round bids by Tony Lema and aging Sam Snead to win the Masters Golf Tournament by a stroke in Augusta, Ga. yesterday. The 23-year-old Nicklaus became the youngest player ever to win a Masters. His 286 total was the highest winning score in seven years of play...
...Gerry de Wit at The Hague. The U.S.'s Dave Ragan will play against the Philippines' Celestino Tugot at Manila's Wack-Wack Golf Club. So it goes for all but one of the eleven matches in the series. In late February Jack Nicklaus plays Sam Snead at Pebble Beach, Calif., and it is difficult to guess what NBC considers foreign-Nicklaus, Snead, or Pebble Beach...
...Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead: the 34-nation Canada Cup, emblematic of world golf supremacy, at San Isidro, Argentina. Snead and Palmer took a three-stroke first-round lead, held on to beat Argentina by two strokes. - Underdog Georgia Tech: a 7-6 victory over previously unbeaten. No. 2-ranked Alabama. Tech Fullback Mike McNames intercepted a pass in the second quarter, scored two plays later; Quarterback Billy Lothridge kicked the extra point that handed Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide its first loss in 27 games. Wisconsin mowed down Illinois 35-6. needed only to defeat Minnesota...
...pique (see cut), after a 4-ft. putt went awry during a practice round. But his complaints cut few divots with Britain's bookmakers, who installed him as the 2-to-1 favorite, or with his fellow pros. "Don't you worry about old Arnie," drawled Sam Snead. "'There ain't nothin' wrong with him that a two-stroke lead won't fix. He's just trying to sweet-talk that tough old course into lyin' down and playin' dead...
...most wonderful money I ever spent," says Charles Nicklaus. "I figure it's like living my life all over again. I always wanted to be a champ." By the time he was 14. Jack already was a local hero in Columbus. MOVE OVER SNEAD-MAKE ROOM FOR JACKIE, read a headline in the Columbus Citizen in 1954. Sportswriters compared Jack to Bobby Jone-who had captured the Georgia Amateur at 14, gone on to the third round of the National Amateur. Even Jones showed up to watch Nicklaus play in his first U.S. Amateur at 15, and the Ohioan...