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The whole question is who won more tournaments for a certain period in the '60's than Palmer, Player and Nicklaus combined?
He won a total of 51 PGA tournaments.
He won a total of 51 PGA tournaments.
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Re: trivia - golfer with more wins than "Big Three" combined
Hmmmm.
I've had to do a bit of digging for this one. And thee are no hard comparable facts for the period that I could find at a glimpse, so I'm gonna go for
BILLY CASPER
Money winner in 66 and 68, lowest scoring average in 60, 63, 65, 66 and 68 and player of the year 66 and 70.
In fact it must be him. During the whole of the 1960's he won 33 times! What a dude!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Ms4d8_LlALast edited by Neil18; 04-01-2009, 08:33 AM. -
Re: trivia - golfer with more wins than "Big Three" combined
That's right, Neil. He was a dude.
There was a good chance that the first poster would have the answer, so it would not have been a trivia contest.
However, I just wanted people to at least think about how good this guy was, and yet he is virtually forgotten.
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Re: trivia - golfer with more wins than "Big Three" combined
He was bloody good.
I think Rotella talks about him a fair bit, if memory serves. Diamond putter, apparently. Even though he seemed to cut across the ball on putts. If I'm right I think it's mentioned that he believed he could shape the ball into the hole on the greens!
He came unstuck when someone told him his stroke was unorthodox and he tried to change it.
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Re: trivia - golfer with more wins than "Big Three" combined
He was very solid mentally. Nothing shook him.
His natural shot was a slinging low fade, which he was able to dial in consistently.
Deadly putter. He used one of the early half moon shaped mallets (I just forget the name of the popular one of that era, as I had one). His stroke was different. His left hand actually rested on the right thigh and stayed there. He would pull the head back with the backward cock of mainly the right hand and popped the ball. As you know, the greens of that period required that popping action, because they were shaggy by comparison to today's.
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