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...took a fling at the P.G.A. tournament circuit after World War II, quit after two years ("I wasn't making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously, one with a hook, the other with a slice. Aha! thought Hahn, and hit the road as a trick-shot artist. In the 15 years since, Hahn has visited 37 countries, traveled...
...aces was Norman Manley, a long-hitting four-handicapper from Inglewood, Calif., who scored three in a month-all on par-four holes, of 330, 330 and 290 yds. Then there was Harry Poli, 56, who plays with a putter exclusively and holed out his 150-yd. tee shot last June at the Salem, Mass., Municipal Golf Course. At Mission Hills Golf Club in Northbrook, Ill., members are still shaking their heads over the golfer who topped his drive on the 15th tee and rolled it into the cup, 175 yds. away...
...told, there have been 82 aces on the pro tour in the last five years, which means that the odds on some golfer's holing out his tee shot in any P.G.A. tournament are only about 2½ to 1. Lloyd's of London should have looked up the odds when they insured a $50,000 hole-in-one prize for the Palm Springs Golf Classic. In 1960, the tournament sponsors paid a premium of $4,500, and Joe Campbell scored an ace. In 1961, Lloyd's hiked it to $13,500, and Don January scored...
...Club's seventh hole, normally an easy 110-yd. wedge shot, Eddie Merrins scored a hole in one-with a No. 3 iron. Paul Harney, one of the longest hitters on the pro tour (he once belted a ball 430 yds.), swung his driver twice (once on the tee, once on the fairway) on a 367-yd. hole and still wound up 30 yds. short of the green. Taking Kentucky windage on the oceanside 18th, Palmer sent a No. 3 wood angling out to sea, smiled happily as the ball blew back right in line with the flag. Scores...
Free from pover-tee, built...