After only eight months on the pro tour, 22-year-old Jack Nicklaus has long since discarded his freshman beanie. In 23 tournaments, he has officially won $53,5!8, never finishing out of the money and dwarfing all earning records for a rookie. To cap it off last June, he won the U.S. Open (TIME cover, June 29), decisively beating Arnie Palmer, himself only 33 and golf's grand master, whose well-deserved popularity should have been enough to freeze any first-year man. But then in the British Open, next month, Nicklaus shot a disastrous, not-to-be-recovered first-round 80 while Palmer was burning up the course,...
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