Word: tees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Literary Caddies. Palmer commands the added income with the effortless grace that goes into a good tee shot. An editor of Golf Digest-one of the many magazines that also buy prose from the pros-writes Palmer's copy; the line drawings illustrating the text are traced from photographs taken of Palmer in Pittsburgh in 1959. About the only editorial control that Sam Snead exerts over his column, which has been running since 1940, is to insist that he be shown wearing that familiar Snead trademark, the porkpie straw...
...beating Palmer. More than any other top golfer, Palmer is a captive of his own emotions: when he feels good, he plays good-even if he does not look good doing it. He twists himself into a pretzel on the putting green. He almost falls down on the tee. He follows through-ah, but no matter! On the second day, Arnie showed up relaxed and smiling, and shot a 68 that gave him a four-stroke lead on the field and seven strokes on Nicklaus. "It's beginning to look like we're playing for second place," grunted...
...Laundries, Dry Cleaning and Maid Service Inc., is really the brainstorm of former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood, who's been in the business a long time. All Arnie has to do is be board chairman and collect the dough. Like the company slogan says: "Suits you to a tee...
...four, with a gaping trap stretched across the front of the green. Other players sensibly hit irons off the tee -purposely playing short of the trap - but Nicklaus pulled out his driver. The ball dropped 6 ft. from the pin - an easy eagle. Waiting on the tee, Bob Rosburg threw up his hands. "What can I do for an encore," he asked, "after a man hits a shot like that...
Nicklaus played his own encores. He sliced his tee shot badly on the 411-yd. sixth hole, still got down in three for a birdie. On the par-five, 549-yd. seventh, Jack got into trouble again. This time, he underestimated his own strength and all but overshot the green with his second shot-a No. 2 iron. Luckily, the ball came to rest on the back fringe. Two putts gave Nicklaus still another birdie, and at the end of seven holes, Jack was six under...