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...haunting driving ranges and practice putting greens, playing a few satellite tour events, reading Dan Jenkins golf novels, and waiting. Waiting to tee off, waiting to string three solid rounds together, waiting for the front-runners in qualifying tournaments to falter so that his score would earn him a TPA card, which would enable him to play with the Nicklauses and Trevinos and Watsons...
...TPA media machine was well-oiled for Bogart Jackson. His background was anomalous; most pro golfers were culled from denizens of the pro shops, but Bogart Jackson's daddy inhabited the h alls of academe. Bogart Jackson was quick with a quip and a smile and would fit neatly in an ABC 30-second profile. Officials in crested blazers drooled at the prospect of Bogart Jackson trading wisecracks with Dave Marr or Byron Nelson or the writers. They pictured Bogart Jackson in a pink Izod t-shirt, navy polyester slacks, Spalding shoes, crunching the all-new dimple pattern...
...trace of envy. Jim McKay had made a luncheon arrangement to "get acquainted." Cliff Roberts, head of the Masters, had duly noted Bogart Jackson's name on a list of probables, feeling confident he would win a tournament soon and merit a berth in the most prestigious of TPA tournaments...
...spokesman for the Conspiracy Defense Committee in Chicago said yesterday that TPA actions were also being staged "in Seattle San Francisco, New York. Washington, Ann Arbor, Peking, Havana.. You know places like that...
...immediately struck out for Marine Base, Quantico. Va., where he was in charge of a squad of Peruvian soldiers working at the airfield there. After eight months in the South, he was ordered to NSCS, where he is now sweating it out over rough rolls, smooth rolls, and TPA's with the rest of us. Not a pilot, he specializes in aviation supply...