Word: vicenzo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shots start to go a little awry, until, like hope, they disappear entirely into the darkness of the day. "Unrecoverable," say the caddies without irony, over and over. "Unrecoverable." On the moonlit night, the golf-course hotel might be Baskerville Hall. From the center window of the Roberto de Vicenzo suite, the shadow of the course appears to be moving. Something emits a low, long, unimaginably sad wail. It's a golfer...
...practice tee, where Roberto De Vicenzo is hitting balls beside Bob Goalby, and Billy Casper is looking unusually rotund in billowing plus fours, memories are almost enough. There is Mike Souchak. In 1960, when Palmer became Palmer, Souchak could have won the U.S. Open, and everything might have been different. Next to him is Orville Moody, whose only tour victory was the 1969 Open, about the last time he made a putt. Then Doug Sanders, who lost the British Open in 1970 on a 2½-footer. "Sometimes I go as long as five minutes," Sanders says, "without thinking about...