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...first prize in the $277,500 P.G.A. National Team competition, at the P.G.A. National Golf Club; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Proving once again that them what has gits, golf's two richest competitors shot a best-ball score of 258 for 72 holes-32-under-par, with 34 birdies, only two bogeys. Palmer's half of the loot brought his year's total earnings to $154,692; Nicklaus' half brought...
...Jack!" Now there was a week. The august members of Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club were embarrassed when Nicklaus ripped their course to shreds last year-firing a record 17-under-par 271 for 72 holes, winning the Masters by nine strokes. Last week there were spongy fairways to deaden long drives and two new greens that were as fast as billiard tables. Hostile fans screamed, "Too bad, Fat Jack!" whenever Nicklaus flubbed a shot. History was against Jack: nobody had ever won the Masters twice in a row. And so, it seemed, was fate...
...Jack Nicklaus, 25: the Thunderbird Classic golf tournament with an 18-under-par 270 for the 72 holes, over Gary Player (272) and Gardner Dickinson (275), raising his official 1965 winnings by $20,000 to $89,700-a full $31,000 more than any other professional golfer; at the Westchester Country Club, Harrison...
...California's Tony Lema: the $50,000 Memphis Open, by one stroke over Tommy Aaron in a sudden-death playoff. Married to an airline stewardess just one month, "Champagne Tony" shot a 10-under-par 270 to tie Aaron for the lead after 72 holes, won the tournament with a scrambling par 4 on the first extra hole, and lived up to his nickname by serving champagne in the pressroom afterward. Lema's $9,000 victory swelled his 1963 winnings to $44,296, second only to Jack Nicklaus ($57,615), who finished eleventh at Memphis, eight strokes back...
...penalty, and Palmer wound up with a 15-under-par 273 to win the $5,300 first-prize money, beating Gary Player, who was having his own disconcerting experience with the rules...