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The travel is endless, the pressure is fierce, but the money is great. The 3 big ones talk about golf JACK NICKLAUS, ARNOLD PALMER, GARY PLAYER: "SOME SPECTATORS ARE THOUGHTLESS AND SOME GREENS ARE LIKE PEANUT BRITTLE." Eifteen years ago I decided to play golf small, sensational South African, and and finally home. Do you know how long 1 on the professional-tournament cir- young Jack Nicklaus, whom many ac- I was gone? Two weeks. cuit. I don't think I believed that I could claim as golf's next superstar. They had PRICE: This much traveling has got to actually win a tournament. My real rea- been playing at the Olympic Club in San make for a hectic life. Got any regrets? son—I think now—was to see just how Francisco, and this is the way the con- PALMER: I love to fly. But it can get to be much I would choke. versation went: a pain. Like when you sit up all night at In that respect the experiment was a an airport waiting for the fog to lift or success. When I joined the circuit I had a PRICE: When I used to travel on the cir- something, and then you got to play the long, lazy backswing. Six months later I cuit, a pro thought he was really moving next day. found it difficult to raise the club past the around if he went 20,000 miles a year. PRICE: Of course the life has its com- level of my hips, and my once-effortless PLAYER: I travel more than that a month. pensations. follow-through had begun to resemble, as I finished a tournament near here last NICKLAUS: Everybody says we make a lot one pro put it, an old lady beating off a Sunday, then flew to my club in the Ba- of money. Well, we do. But we have to purse snatcher with an umbrella." hamas and back by Wednesday. That's spend so darn much. Traveling with your Every so often since then I have gone 6,000 miles right there. kids you have to spend, oh, $35 a night back to the circuit just to see how things NICKLAUS: I fly about 100,000 miles a for two rooms if you're lucky. Now you are getting along. I now confine myself to year, and both Arnie and Gary fly more. multiply that - the gallery, where I belong, or to the club- PALMER: We don't think in terms of just PLAYER: Last year I had my wife and house, where I shoot dialectics with one miles any more. I mean, how can you? three children, my mother-in-law and also or another of the pros while he is chang- Last year I flew from my home near a nurse, all traveling together. That made ing his shoes or grabbing a sandwich or Pittsburgh to New York, then to Miami, seven of us. We had 20 pieces of baggage. having a beer. Not long ago, tape recorder back to New York, on to Paris, Johan- Every time I arrived at or left an airport MODERATED BY in hand, I cornered the three currently nesburg, all over South Africa and it cost me six dollars to tip the porters. ranking pros: Arnold Palmer, the game's Southern and Northern Rhodesia, then PRICE: In all this traveling what impresses CHARLES PRICE acknowledged master; Gary Player, the Athens, Rome, Milan, back to New York you most about the game? 66 "This starter sure has everything anyone could "You have to stay within yourself ask for!" and think your shots through. Stop thinking and the wheels come of your game." GOLF ROUND TABLE us putted to within two feet of the hole, and then all three of us missed the cup PLAYER: Without a doubt golf will be the with our next putts. As I walked off the national game of the world in another ten green some guy comes up to me and says, years. "Boy, you sure make me feel good miss- PRICE: Would you say the appeal of the ing those short putts. Are the greens game is due to the fact that golf is so— really that bumpy?" This guy was on the well, civilized? course, and he couldn't tell how bumpy NICKLAUS: Yes. Golf is still the gentle- they were. Why, it was like trying to putt man's game. on peanut brittle. BULLETIN 709 Size 2 PALMER: Pros are conscientious enough PRICE: In an ordinary round of golf most across-the-line starter. about the sportsmanship angle that they people concede themselves that six- Rated 15 hp, 220 v; incher. That's one of the differences be- 25 hp, 440-550 v. don't need somebody standing over them saying they should be penalized for this tween tournament golf and everyday or for that. If the ball moves acciden- golf. What are some more? tally, for instance, they're gentlemen PLAYER: In tournament golf you get enough to say the ball moved and that charged up. Of course he's referring to the they should be penalized a stroke. That's PRICE: Yes, but why is it some people can the great, great thing about golf. You play when they are charged up while Bulletin 709 Series K starters don't have to have a referee standing over others cannot? you and saying you were roughing the PALMER: I think we apply ourselves a II Here's a line of motor starters designed to please you and your electrical opposition or that you slid into the bag little more in tournaments. The differ- maintenance man. Easy to install, easy to inspect and easy to maintain— too late. You do it yourself. You don't ence is as simple as that. But that doesn't plus extra millions of trouble free operations. like to but you do it, without hard mean we don't play hard all the time. Our Simple in design — having only ONE moving part — there's nothing that can feelings. scores are often a little higher during cause trouble. The weld-resistant, cadmium oxide silver contacts do not re- PRICE: Is there anything in golf you do practice because we experiment or work on weak shots. We'll try these shots on quire service attention — they're good until the silver is completely worn away. have hard feelings about? PALMER: Unruly galleries. Not spectators Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but And it's so easy to inspect the contacts from the front of the starter — simply individually, but galleries collectively on Thursday we go to the shots we know. loosen two captive screws and lift off the arc hood cover. Allen-Bradley's when they aren't controlled properly. I This experimenting is true for any part of exclusive pressure molded coil is not affected by mechanical damage, and enjoy large galleries. They can get you the game, even putting. I'm sure we all is not subject to harmful atmospheres. The blindfold test below shows clearly charged up, and they can make a good use shots early in the week that we would how easy it is to remove the coil. target out of a green when they're stand- never even try when the tournament Auxiliary contacts can be fastened to the front of the arc hood in a matter ing around the edge of it. But I don't en- starts. But once we get to know these of seconds. Standard kits make it easy to add push buttons, selector switches, joy large galleries when the marshals are shots well enough to attempt them in a pilot lights, or a third overload relay out in the field. just a bunch of nice guys in red coats who tournament, we do. PRICE: In Florida a few weeks ago Sam All of the "facts" are detailed in our Publication 6100, which you can get are out to enjoy the tournament. Some of them don't even care if the galleries Snead was telling me that he used to play from a nearby, exclusive Allen-Bradley distributor. Or write to Allen-Bradley walk on the greens. 10 or a dozen shots in a round of tourna- Co., 1200 S. Third St., Milwaukee 4, Wisconsin. In Canada: Allen-Bradley PLAYER: I was standing on the fairway of ment golf that were extraordinarily good. Canada Ltd., Galt, Ontario. the second hole at a tournament recently, Ten or 20 years ago, he said, he could looking the shot over and trying to de- count on these shots' making a round of cide what to hit, and—pow !—some guy golf successful. Today, he says, he can't walks right into me and almost knocks bring off more than one or two shots blindfolded me down. On the 15th tee I'm getting exactly as he planned them. ready to hit my drive when I spot some PALMER: Exactly the way he planned The coil can be changed them? That's a lot of shots, two in 18 in less than 5 minutes. guy right here with a bloody movie It takes only two minutes to camera. Right here above me in a tree, holes, I think, to come off exactly as you remove the coil—three min- not ten feet away. "Please," I said, "give plan them. utes to replace it and to re- me a chance, will you?" Well, I finally get NICKLAUS: I don't hit two a year. That is, assemble the starter. Time it the ball on the edge of the green some- two that go in the hole.