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...fans to the dogwood-dotted Augusta course. And the gallery got its duel. On the murky first day, Palmer fired a fine 68; Player hung on with a 69. On the sunbaked second day, they swapped scores, and Player narrowly missed a hole in one when his tee shot soared over the creek in front of the par-three 12th hole, landed squarely in the cup and ricocheted 15 ft. away. At the halfway point, Palmer and Player were tied at 137, seven strokes under...
Helpful Spectator. The third day belonged to Player. His walloping drives carried a country mile down the fairway, his irons were crisp, his approaches deadly, his putting sure. When a tee shot went awry on the 9th hole, he sliced a spoon shot out of deep woods 250 yds. to the green. On the 520-yd., par-five 15th, his second wood overshot the green, but a spectator batted it back. "You people around here," grinned Player, "treat us foreigners very well." With a sparkling 69, Player became the first in Masters history to stay under 70 for the first...
Unlucky 13th. After that came the unlucky 13th, a par-five, 475-yd. hole. Player's tee shot sliced into heavy woods at the right of the fairway. Impatiently, Player tried to bend a No. 2 iron shot around the trees, smothered his ball, sent it scuttling into a creek. He dropped out, took a one-stroke penalty, missed a 4-ft. putt, and scored an appalling double-bogey seven that left him tied with Palmer Shaken, Player fluffed a simple, 3-ft. puti on the 15th, dropped a stroke behind Staggering through a sand trap on the 18th...
...tee, Kennedy's swing is smooth; his stance is good, his grip is proper and his backswing is slow. He normally gets between 225 and 250 yds. on his drives, but he is troubled by a hook. He is often sharp with his short irons (on a recent Palm Beach outing he unnerved his companions by dropping an approach shot for a birdie 3 on the first hole), and his putting is excellent. He is weakest with his long irons. Says Crosby: "He tops the ball. There's a term we have for that-menacing the field mice...
...Visibly distressed when a wayward tee shot struck a five-year-old girl in the gallery, Golfer Arnold Palmer blew a two-stroke lead in the final round of the Phoenix Open, needed a difficult 8-ft. birdie putt on the last hole to tie fast-closing Doug Sanders. In next day's playoff, Palmer shot a 67, beat Sanders by three strokes for the $4,300 first prize. It was Palmer's second win in six 1961 tournaments-a pace putting him ahead of his remarkable 1960 performance...