Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his golf clubs for the pro-amateur round in the Phoenix Open, G.M. Test Driver Wilbur Allen, 38, zoomed out to catch his hero's performance. "Any mulligans?" hollered Barry jovially to the crowd. But he certainly didn't need any free shots, slamming 200-yd. drives until on the sixth hole he hooked the ball into the spectators, specifically Wilbur Allen. Allen ended up in Mesa Lutheran Hospital with several stitches in his cheek; but medicare hasn't gained a partisan, for Goldwater is footing the bills...
...aces were recorded in 1964 alone. The odds against just any amateur's getting one are computed at 6,000 to 1. But the lightning can strike willy-nilly. Last year's initiates included an 84-year-old retired businessman from California (No. 8 iron, 110-yd. hole), a nine-year-old Little Leaguer from North Carolina (No. 3 iron, 157-yd. hole), and a Texas housewife who was eight months pregnant when she dubbed a No. 6-iron shot into the cup on a 125-yd. hole...
...aces was Norman Manley, a long-hitting four-handicapper from Inglewood, Calif., who scored three in a month-all on par-four holes, of 330, 330 and 290 yds. Then there was Harry Poli, 56, who plays with a putter exclusively and holed out his 150-yd. tee shot last June at the Salem, Mass., Municipal Golf Course. At Mission Hills Golf Club in Northbrook, Ill., members are still shaking their heads over the golfer who topped his drive on the 15th tee and rolled it into the cup, 175 yds. away...
Kentucky Windage. On the Pebble Beach Country Club's seventh hole, normally an easy 110-yd. wedge shot, Eddie Merrins scored a hole in one-with a No. 3 iron. Paul Harney, one of the longest hitters on the pro tour (he once belted a ball 430 yds.), swung his driver twice (once on the tee, once on the fairway) on a 367-yd. hole and still wound up 30 yds. short of the green. Taking Kentucky windage on the oceanside 18th, Palmer sent a No. 3 wood angling out to sea, smiled happily as the ball blew back...
...East, in the American Football League's All-Star game in Houston, where the game was moved after 21 Negro players refused to play in New Orleans as a protest against a series of racial incidents. The Westerners scored on the first play from scrimmage -a 73-yd. pass from Kansas City Quarterback Len Dawson to San Diego's Fullback Keith Lincoln-and Lincoln put the game on ice with an 80-yd. TD run in the third quarter...