Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth place after two days and trailing by seven strokes at the start of the grueling, 36-hole final round, Betsy played the hilly, 6,137-yd course as if she owned it. Betsy curled in long, difficult putts-one of 60 ft.-with grooved accuracy, gained six strokes on the leaders in the first six holes, and finished the morning 18 with a 4-under-par 68, tying the tournament record. She wilted a bit in the afternoon sun and slipped to a 75. It was just enough to win when 25-year-old Joyce Ziske's challenge...
...17th hole on St. Andrews' hallowed, fishhook-shaped Old Course is one of the world's great golfing tests, a 463-yd., par five, whose hazards include a deeply trapped green, a stone wall, a road, and a cluster of barns that mask the green from the tee. Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pa., whose flaming finishes won this year's Masters and U.S. Open tournaments, is the world's best golfer, one who could be expected to handle even the "Road Hole." Last week in the British Open, Palmer and the Road Hole fought a tense...
...next nine holes were decisive. Hitting with full power, Palmer reached the green on the 563-yd. eleventh hole in two shots, holed out in two putts for another birdie to go four under par for the tournament. With Souchak fading fast, the Open turned into a frantic, four-way fight between Palmer, Jack Fleck, 38, the 1958 winner, Jack Nicklaus. 20, the husky U.S. Amateur champion, and a fagged-out Ben Hogan, 47, gallantly trying for his fifth victory in the event...
...thick wrists, and leather-hard, outsized hands that can crumple a beer can as though it were tissue paper. Like baseball buffs, golf fans dote on the long-ball hitter; they pack six deep behind the tee to gasp in admiration as Powerman Palmer unwinds to send a 280-yd. drive down the fairway. Coldly precise in his study of the game, Palmer is anything but stolid during a round: he mutters imprecations to himself, contorts his face, sometimes drops his club and wanders away in disgust at a botched shot. On the greens, bent into his knock-kneed stance...
High winds made the third round the tournament's toughest. Palmer finished the first nine in 34. But on the 475-yd. 13th hole he gambled. Trying to make the green with his second shot, he landed instead in a creek, took a bogey 6 for the hole. And again, throughout most of the day, Palmer had putting troubles. Finishing the round with a 72, he groaned, "I've putted like Joe Shmokes two days in a row." At that point, his tournament total of 212 was only one better than that of a five-man pack...