Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Masters Sunshine Open. He began the Masters riding a streak of nine consecutive sub-70 rounds, and his confidence seemed unshakable. "I hate to tell you how well I've been playing," Player said as he finished his last practice round over the treacherous, 6,980-yd. Augusta National course...
...Player. His walloping drives carried a country mile down the fairway, his irons were crisp, his approaches deadly, his putting sure. When a tee shot went awry on the 9th hole, he sliced a spoon shot out of deep woods 250 yds. to the green. On the 520-yd., par-five 15th, his second wood overshot the green, but a spectator batted it back. "You people around here," grinned Player, "treat us foreigners very well." With a sparkling 69, Player became the first in Masters history to stay under 70 for the first three rounds of the tournament. Palmer, meanwhile...
Unlucky 13th. After that came the unlucky 13th, a par-five, 475-yd. hole. Player's tee shot sliced into heavy woods at the right of the fairway. Impatiently, Player tried to bend a No. 2 iron shot around the trees, smothered his ball, sent it scuttling into a creek. He dropped out, took a one-stroke penalty, missed a 4-ft. putt, and scored an appalling double-bogey seven that left him tied with Palmer Shaken, Player fluffed a simple, 3-ft. puti on the 15th, dropped a stroke behind Staggering through a sand trap on the 18th...
Steve Clark, 17-year-old high school speedster from Los Altos, Calif., scored a major upset early in the three-day meet by beating Australian Murray Rose in the 220-yd. freestyle with a record-smashing time of two minutes flat. Picking up momentum, he flailed through the 100-yd. freestyle in 46.8 sec.-an achievement that ranks with an 8-ft. high jump, a 16-ft. pole vault, or a 100-yd. dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds...
...Hialeah, Fla., last week, a trio of 14-year-olds ranked high among the winners at the A.A.U. women's swimming championships. The Indianapolis Athletic Club's Kathy Ellis won the 100-yd. butterfly; her teammate, Jean Ann Delle-kamp, took the 100-yd. breaststroke; and California's Donna de Varona, youngest member of last year's U.S. Olympic team, was first in the 200-yd. individual medley. Olympic Star Chris Von Saltza, a veteran at 17 and about to retire from competitive swimming, won the 100-yd., 250-yd. and 500-yd. freestyle events...