On the 18th green at Louisiana's Oakbourne Country Club, Gay Brewer marked his ball and turned to Jack Nicklaus. "What's it worth to you," he asked, "if I miss this putt?" Nicklaus solemnly reached into his pocket, pulled out a money clip crammed with bills, and held it out to Brewer. Brewer chuckled impishly, lined up his putt—a straight-in 15-footer—and missed. It was a fitting climax to pro golf's 1964 season, a wacky eleven months in which a reformed rake named Tony Lema won four tournaments in six incredible weeks; in which Old (35) Master Arnold Palmer won his...
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