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...pragmatic maxim: "Singles hitters drive Chevrolets; home run hitters drive Cadillacs." In golf, whippy steel, aluminum and fiber glass golf-club shafts have replaced the wood of 35 years ago, and today's high-compression balls allow even a Sunday duffer to dream of belting one 300 yds. off the tee-something Bobby Jones never...
...Open, 37th at Houston. His official earnings for the year were only $15,511. "I haven't had a whole lot of confidence," he admitted-but that was before New Orleans. In the first round at Lakewood Country Club, he belted a drive that was measured at 320 yds.; in the second he drove the green of the par-four twelfth hole-360 yds. away. Jack's first round score was a two-under-par 70; he followed that with a 68 and a 69, at week's end had moved into a tie for the lead...
Belt-'em-Out. Super Showman Cohen did not miss a schtick. Searchlights raked the sky; a 25-piece band blared Give My Regards to Broadway. Limousines glided up to the theater on 800 sq. yds. of red carpeting. Unlike the Emmy and Oscar awards, which grind on endlessly, honoring the best stunt man to fall off a burning building in a foreign independently produced black-andwhite wide-screen musical comedy, the $450,000 Tony spectacular restricted the on-camera awards to just twelve categories, devoted the rest of the time to full-dress performances from the four best-musical...
...tournaments to stage each year, the Professional Golfers' Association is not always particularly choosy about where it books them. This year's Los Angeles Open was played on a mediocre public course, and the ridiculously low scoring at the Pensacola Open was hardly unexpected; at 6,380 yds., the Pensacola Country Club's flat, sun-baked 18 is little more than an oversized par-three course...
...rough is crewcut, sand traps are covered, pins are set in the fattest parts of the greens, and the course may be deliberately shortened. For the Doral Open in Miami, the Doral Country Club's "Blue Monster" was cut from its nor mal length of 7,002 yds. to 6,652 yds., prompting Nicklaus to grouse: "We're playing from the ladies' tees." (They were.) The theory is that low scores attract fans. "People don't pay three and four and five bucks to watch us hacking out of the rough," says Ken Still, who finished...