Word: nicklaus
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...Kite, "it was, 'Oh, no, another 40-year-old wins a major.' There just weren't a lot of 20-year-olds out there at the time." Indeed, golf history seems as well-ordered as Sunday afternoon groupings: Hogan, Nelson and Snead, all born in 1912; Palmer, Player and Nicklaus, winning 10 of 16 majors (1960-63); Watson, Kite and Crenshaw, turning pro one right after the other...
Leonard is also part of the Texas golf tradition handed down from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan to Jimmy Demaret to Lee Trevino to Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Growing up in Dallas, Justin was so golf-mad that he wrote school papers on Nicklaus, Player and Palmer and practiced his short game inside the house. He recalled one hole as "up the stairs, around the dining room table and over the dog." The enormity of his desire was somewhat mitigated by his small stature, but Leonard delighted in beating opponents who far outdrove him. Because Leonard rarely loses his composure...
...professional, Woods exceeds all expectations, expectations that are exceedingly high. I, too, tuned into the Masters, as I do every year, Mr. Kilfara. Woods ran away from the greatest field in the world and broke the long standing tournament records posted by two of golf's greatest legends, Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. In Mr. Kilfara's eyes, "Tiger played mediocre golf for most of Sunday's final round." I rebut: an aggregate 69, three under par, on Sunday at Augusta National in front of the largest gallery and television audience in history is nothing short of amazing. Sorry...
Much more than coincidence links Palmer and Woods. They both live in the Orlando area, and, thanks to Mark McCormack's International Management Group, they are both richer than Croesus and maybe even Jack Nicklaus. They play with the same swashbuckling style. Woods was all over the course on Thursday, but as he said, "I got the ball in the hole somehow." Palmer's round came apart after he tried to hit the ninth green in two from a bad lie and pulled the ball out of bounds, leading to a triple bogey. "If I play in a tournament," says...
GERALD FORD Ford may have had more advisers for his golf game than he did for the Middle East: Jack Nicklaus guided his swing, Hale Irwin helped him with irons, and Dave Stockton nursed his putting. But his golfing only seemed to reinforce his image as a big (clumsy) man carrying a little stick...