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But in Sunday's final round, events slowly conspired to force the first sudden-death playpff in the history of the Big Four classics, and by the time the three extra holes were com• pleted the golf club groove nonsense had been long for• gotten. What will be remembered is 27-year-old Lanny Wad• kins breaking the high-jump record for golfers who have just dropped a four-foot putt for a par. No Masters or U.S. Open or British Open or National PGA had ever got itself decided at sudden death-well, at least not since the PGA switched from match play to stroke play in I 958. Sudden death had only been adopted-ob• viously for the benefit of television-by the Masters a cou• ple of years ago and this year for the PGA. A playoff was bound to happen eventually, but not until Sunday after• noon at Pebble Beach did this seem to be the time and the place. Instead, that old smoothie Littler, 47, seemed ready to add still another comeback to the many in his career. With nine holes left, he held a five-stroke lead, and it was his PGA, even more than it had been on Thursday, when he opened up with a 67 to lead by one, or on Friday, when he shot a 69 and led by two, or on Saturday, when his third• round 70 had left him four ahead of Nicklaus, who was play• ing steadily but not making anything happen. Where Wad- continued Wadkins was jubilant as his 12-foot par putt rolled into the cup on the first extra hole; Littler was grim, having lost his lead and momentum. 13 BATTl.E OF THE AGES continued kins was all of this time was shooting another about their clubs. Usually the how clubs are made, what the grooves 69- 71- 72, which could be considered as comments are on the order of "Where'd are good for, and why there are "specs" staying in contention only if Littler did you find that wedge? Why, you could in the first place. Grooves basically are exactly what Littler did-leave his short back the ball down the highway toward for control, and grooves on the short game in the Del Monte Lodge on a plat• Birmingham!" But Burns started to wor• irons are there for backspin. Grooves can ter of abalone. ry about the remark. He did not know help get the ball up, which is good un• Littler's troubles began when he bun• that with the naked eye no one can de• less you want to keep the ball down in kered his approach on l 0 and bogeyed. termine the width of grooves in a golf the wind. The rules governing grooves He three-putted 12 for a bogey. He bo• club. "I don't know anything about golf were adopted in 1941 by the USGA be• geyed the 13th after a bad second shot clubs," Burns admitted at Pebble Beach. cause certain guys had designed wedges and a poor chip. He bogeyed 14 after hit• "I thought, 'Well, what if they are il• that could make a golf ball dance with ting into a fairway bunker. And he bo• legal? I don't want to win any money the Russian ballet. geyed the 15th with an impure short iron like that.' " But consider what happened after the that found a bunker. By that time Littler What Bums did next at Hartford was 1948 club check at Riviera. In those days had fallen into a tie with Nicklaus, and what turned the PGA into a scientific MacGregor had a powerhouse staff in• Wadkins was only a shot away. For a lit• convention. He took his clubs to Deputy cluding Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson. tle while the gods of golf looked very PGA Commissioner Clyde Mangum to Before that Open all of the MacGregor much as though they were dictating that have them examined. Mangum got out irons had to be filed down. With that dis• Nicklaus was going to win his 17th major his gauge and he looked at the faces of advantage, Hogan shot 276 and broke the championship in the least satisfying Burns' clubs. The device told Mangum Open record by five strokes. Grooves way-through the complete collapse of the grooves were too wide. How much? have little to do with drivers and put• an old friend. About the width of a baby's fingernail. ters, and those clubs have always been Then Nicklaus did what he has now Nevertheless, rules are rules, and Bums where the money and titles are. done for the past two years. He found an• disqualified himself at Hartford. So after all was said and done, it be• other way to lose a major when he was A minor incident at the time, it came a joke. There was only one answer within throat-clearing distance of it. At seemed. Except that a few other pros use for the headlines, which said pros were the par-3 17th hole, where he had once the same irons as Bums, clubs made by using illegal clubs, the insinuation being taken a U.S. Open with one of the most the Ram Corporation of Elk Grove Vil• that they were cheaters. Ed Sneed, the brilliant one-irons anyone ever struck, lage, Ill. And those few other players hap• Ryder Cup member, wrote it out: "When Jack hit a three-iron that achieved some• Like Pebble Beach, Nicklaus is suffering a drought. It is now two years since he won a major title. pened to be Tom Watson, Raymond you consider that the golf ball, which is thing less than the desired result. In fact, Floyd, Littler and Gary Player. At Peb• either of solid or wound construction and it took a lousy bounce, leaving him with ble, the Ram troops took their clubs to has a Balata or Surlyn cover and must an impossible chip and putt to rescue his ie record for earnings {$1l6,616, to be green, however, Littler short and Wad• "I didn't know what it was to play bad. I Mangum's eyepiece. No rule says you not exceed 1.62 ounces nor be Jess than par. He suffered the bogey and failed to 10th on the money list), had practically kins over. Neither had a bargain of a chip, didn't know golf was so hard. I went from have to. There had not been a club check 1.68 inches in diameter, is struck with a make up for it with a birdie at the last disappeared from the game for three but Littler made his even worse by catch• long and straight to short and crooked." that anyone could remember since the club, the shaft of which may be made of green, when still another putt refused to years after a gall bladder operation. ing it fat. He was still a woeful 20 feet If Wadkins was the story on Sunday, 1948 U.S. Open at Riviera. aluminum, titanium, graphite, hickory or obey the rap he gave it. Minutes earlier But in the locker room, he was the short. Wadkins gouged again from the the great groove scandal dominated talk Well, of course, Watson's were too moon rock, and is tipped Y4 of an inch Wadkins had jammed a fine wedge onto old Lanny. He turned to a friend who thick fringe, and the ball trickled down earlier, diverting conversation from for• wide (.037 instead of .035), Floyd's were and is Ys of an inch longer than stan• the 18th green and then staggered a bird• had a beer in his hand. "Give me some to within four feet. est fires, the price of suede in Carmel, too wide, several of Player's were too dard, especially when most manufactur• ie putt into the cup to close with a two• of that," he said. Wadkins took a couple Play golf at Pebble Beach only once the water rations of the Lodge and where wide, but Littler's were O.K. Next, other ers on the deflection board drop it 4.3612 under 70 and a total of 282. of swigs. "That ought to do it," he said. or twice and you would miss Lanny's putt Joan Fontaine's house was located. It got competitors asked for a check. Nicklaus, inches with a one-pound weight placed As the so-called "leader in the club• Then he grinned and went out the door.
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