Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play-off with Johnny Pott, and pocket the winner's $9,000 after the first play-off hole. In the Thunderbird Classic at Westchester Country Club two weeks ago, Nicklaus was one stroke behind Gary Player with four holes to go. So on the next hole, a 454-yd. par four, he banged his No. 3 iron second shot to within 15 ft. of the pin, canned the putt for a birdie three-and went on to a two-stroke, $20,000 victory. He made it two in a row at the Philadelphia Golf Classic. Locked in a four...
...under par for the tournament, tied with Billy Casper and barely two strokes behind his playing partner, Dave Marr, a journeyman golfer who had not won a tournament since 1962. A birdie for Nicklaus and a bogie for Marr would mean a playoff. Teeing off for the 470 yd. par-four, Marr hooked his drive into a fairway trap, while Nicklaus slammed one 300 yds deadcenter. But after all those years, Marr was not about to throw it away. With a beautiful recovery and approach, he salvaged his par, and Jack missed his birdie. That did it. The new P.G.A...
...flames forced Driver Bill Brow to dive into the lake, and that automatically halted the race. The finals would have to be rerun As the boats maneuvered for the last start, Musson boldly flashed across the line in almost the same split second the gun sounded, getting a 50-yd. jump on Miss Notre Dame. No one even got close to him as he swept across the finish line at an average speed of 110.655 m.p.h. Said Musson: "If I can win five cups to tie Gar Wood and then win one more for myself, it's doubtful that...
...Texas, is advertised by the Chamber of Commerce as the shortest river in the world, running only four miles from its spring-fed source until it spills into the larger Guadalupe River. But some 1,200 tubers flock to it on Sunday afternoons, mostly to ride the steep, 350-yd. stretch where the river swirls like a whirlpool bath. For the sake of togetherness, Texas tubers frequently link feet under arms and form an enormous water snake composed of 40 or 50 tubers. At the end of the run, few tubers have remained linked together, but all of them...
...Shame." Two months ago Snell ran a half-mile in Honolulu, then a mile in Los Angeles. He won both races, but his time for the half-mile (1 min. 53.8 sec.) was only soso. He ran an 880-yd. race against Canada's Bill Crothers in Toronto. On the last turn, Snell pulled his usual ploy, turned on a great burst of speed for the final sprint, but Crothers hung on, passed him 40 yds. from the tape. "My legs felt dead," complained Snell...