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Then along came Craig Stadler, a walrus who might become a king but is content being a cabbage. At 28, he is both a happy and a happy-go-lucky figure, bountifully blessed in life and golf at the moment, the way everything about him eventually tends to abundance. Stadler is as fat as Nicklaus ever was, but makes no apologies. "I enjoy being myself," he says...
...After Stadler won the Masters last week, in discussions of why the public was reversing itself and finding a fat golfer so appealing, a recurring suggestion was "It is because he is so unlike golfers." But Stadler is only unlike the current pros; he is exactly like golfers...
...golf course, Stadler spits and fulminates, though he hasn't flung a club in a long while. He stands 5 ft. 10 in. and weighs 216 Ibs., but what really ought to be measured is his hands. They are hands from Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. The price of having huge hands is having huge feet, and his have suffered much in his wild swinging tantrums. All of the pros talk of limping in, but Stadler has done...
...British Amateur championship, a cockney caddie became something of a folk hero for hurling Stadler's clubs back at him and forcing him to take a replacement from the gallery. With a clarion flourish, the Royal and Ancient publicly commended the wronged caddie on his principles and paid him for a full round. Still, Stadler is no McEnroe. Off the course, he is too nice a guy. It is natural that the other players call him "Walrus," since it is impossible to look at him and think of anything else. When he speaks, his mustache bobs up and down...
...Craig Stadler may have done more than win the PGA Masters last week. The beer-bellied hurler of eight-irons and unprintable expressions of disgust may have jolted golf loose from its venerable "clean sport" image Golfers everywhere, from the pros to the caddy camps, have had to cope with sneers from aficionados of other sports, who believe playing golf requires a minimum of effort and talent and primarily a lot of inherited wealth. Stadler has shown that a less classy guy can win a major tournament, proving that golf is a game of skill, both mental and physical...