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...What would you say the odds were against my being here? A million to one?" Littler asked in Akron last week, as he prepared to tee off in the World Series of Golf. A TV spectacular that carries a top prize of $50,000, the World Series is supposed to match the winners of golfs top four tournaments -the U.S. Open, the Masters, the British Open and the P.G.A. Three of the slots were easy to fill: Billy Casper won the Open, Al Geiberger won the P.G.A., and Jack Nicklaus was the Masters, champion. But Nicklaus also won the British...
...nine-foot putt for a birdie. When Al Geiberger birdied the par-four, 465-yd. 18th, the match wound up in a three-way tie. Littler, Nicklaus and Geiberger all headed back to the 14th hole for a sudden-death playoff. Big Jack excused himself instantly, bouncing his tee shot off a tree, running his approach clear over the green. Geiberger missed an eight-foot putt for a birdie. Littler apologetically stroked his own 22-footer straight into the cup ("If it hadn't been downhill, it wouldn't have gone in") and walked off with the biggest...
Visibly rattled and muttering to himself, Palmer stepped up to the 16th tee, and proceeded to bounce his drive off a tree into the high grass. His second shot, a No. 3 iron, crawled less than 100 yds. through the rough. He had to hit a No. 9 iron just to get the ball back on the fairway. A stray No. 3 wood left Arnie trapped just off the green; he had to explode to within 4 ft. of the rim and sink the putt to salvage a six-"the greatest six I ever made." Another birdie by Casper...
...turning point in Millis's match came at the treacherous 9th hole. After a poor tee shot, Millis laid his second shot only six inches from the cup on the 235-yard water hole. His par three won, and from that moment...
William Sellers runs a heating-equipment company near Philadelphia, and he plays golf for business rather than pleasure. One June day in 1964, Sellers' game was running true to format the Manufacturers Golf and Country Club in Oreland, Pa. At the third tee, his mind on a potential deal, Sellers hit the ball so awkwardly that it flew to the rear and struck one of his partners, James Walsh, sales manager of the tank division of Bethlehem Steel in Dunellen, N.J. As a result, Walsh was blinded in his left...