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...this year's prestigious Masters, a nationwide television audience got a close look at Palmer in his career's finest moment. With three holes to go, Palmer needed one birdie to tie and two to beat another young star, California's Ken Venturi, 28. Recalls Palmer: "When I came off the 15th green, everybody was cheering. I could hear them, but they weren't getting to me?if I didn't get the bird it was all meaningless to me. On 16, I hit a three-iron to get the ball up to the hole, but I eased...
...VENTURI, 28 (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), has the smoothest swing of the younger players, is a wonderfully talented shotmaker whose game is still marred by inexplicable runs of bad play (he lost the Masters mostly because of a dismal six-over-par 42 on the back nine of the opening round). Son of a ship chandlery salesman in San Francisco, Venturi began playing golf at the age of nine, was a senior at San Jose State College when he came under the benevolent care of Millionaire Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Ed Lowery. A golf nut, Lowery not only bankrolled Venturi...
...about two feet from the cup, then limped in for a birdie three! After a field-leading round of 67, he admitted that "I drove very good"-then quickly corrected the comment to "good enough." Palmer's most highly touted competitor, smooth-swinging young, (28), Ken Venturi, burned up the front nine with a 31, then collapsed, coming home with a weekend golfer...
...days in a row." At that point, his tournament total of 212 was only one better than that of a five-man pack on his heels: Ben Hogan, beginning to weary ("Every time I stand over the ball I feel like the hole is filled with my corpuscles"), Finsterwald, Venturi, Casper and Julius Boros...
...still well out on the course when Venturi finished with a silky 70, giving him a 283 - or five under par - for the tournament. By the time he got to the 1 6th hole Palmer needed one birdie to tie, two to win. On the 16th he had to make a 20-ft. uphill putt for a birdie. He opted to leave the flag in the hole. The putt was true - but overstroked. It hit the flag and ricocheted away...