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...National Open Golf Champion Julius Boros, the 18-hole playoff of the $90,000 "World" golf tournament, with a score of 68 to beat out Runner-Up Gary Middlecoff, who carded a 70, after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
...hitter who had also failed as a P.G.A. finalist (against Jim Ferrier in 1947). Harbert's booming drives consistently outdistanced Turnesa in the morning 18 holes. At the lunchtime break, Turnesa, after getting in and out of five traps, was three holes down to Harbert's 2-under-par 70. Turnesa, as spunky as he is chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match-and he had to sink a 15-foot birdie putt to do it. Said...
...Jimmy Clark, the P.G.A.'s Azalea Open golf tournament, with a record 16-under-par 272; at Wilmington, N.C. Clark, 30, an unknown pro from Laguna Beach, Calif, had won only $180 this season before hitting the $2,000 Azalea jackpot...
...course (par: 72) were determined not to let Jack make it four tournaments in a row: the 66 only brought him a four-way tie for low first-round honors. Then, while the others slipped up toward par, Jack stayed down in birdie country. By the last day, though firemen had to put out a small brush fire on the course, Jack was white-hot. He carded another 66, smashed the tournament record with his 72-hole score of 266, eight strokes better than the total of Runner-Up Al Besselink. Pocketing the $2,000 prize for his 22-under...
Meanwhile, most of the other pros were going about their business of playing golf. The winner: Newcomer Ted Kroll, 32, of New Hartford, N.Y,, with a 12-under-par...