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 Arnold
Palmer er en legende i golf. Han oppsummerer året som er gått.
30.12 Arnold Palmer:
Hendelse med Ken Venturi i Masters i 1958
Golfregler er ikke
alltid lett materie.
Arnold Palmer skriver om Ken Venturi og en episode som skjedde under Masters i
1958 på det 12. hullet.
Her er den i sin helhet: Hentet fra Golfchannel.com:
Ken Venturi: Ken became well known to casual golf fans when he joined the
television booth in the late 1960s, but he was a force in the game as early as
the late 1940s. A student of Byron Nelson and frequent playing partner of Ben
Hogan, Ken was a formidable talent whose career was both sparked and unraveled
by physical ailments. He first took up golf as a 13-year-old in response to his
teacher’s diagnosis of Ken as a “an incurable stammerer.” He took up the
loneliest sport he knew.
His ironman performance in winning the 1964 U.S. Open while battling severe
dehydration remains the hallmark by which on-course toughness is measured. But
ultimately it was another physical challenge, carpal tunnel syndrome, which
forced his early retirement in the late 1960s and encouraged his transition to
the broadcast booth.
Ken and I will likely forever be linked by a rules decision invoked while
playing in the final round of the 1958 Masters. On the 12th hole, I hit a 6-iron
off the tee and my ball plugged into its own pitch mark on the back fringe of
the green. The ground was wet and soft, and a local rule providing relief from
an embedded ball was in effect all week. I was leading by a shot, and just to be
safe I called over the rules official, the late Arthur Lacey. I proposed that I
could lift, clean and drop my ball without penalty to a spot as close as
possible to the original position and no nearer the hole (a stance with which
Ken agreed), but Lacey disagreed, saying I had to play the embedded ball. I knew
I was right, but I wasn't in much of a position to argue. Finally, I said, “I'm
going to play two balls and appeal to the tournament committee.” I knew I had
that option under Rule 3-3a.
Lacey objected, saying, “No sir, you cannot do that either.” I told him, “Well,
that's exactly what I'm doing.” I played the original ball as it lay for a 5 and
then announced that I was about to play a second ball. I dropped to a clean lie
and made par. Ken objected, saying that I was required to announce to him that I
was going to play two balls before I played the original. The officials on site
at the Masters reviewed the case, agreed with me, and I won my first Masters by
a shot.
That incident affected our relationship. We both wrote about it in subsequent
books, each of us insisting that we were right. I think the whole episode says
more about the confusion built into the Rules of Golf than it does about me or
Ken. I regret that the incident affected our relationship. Ken was a remarkable
human being, and a warm and true friend to thousands of people in and out of the
game.
Les også en interessant sak om Frank Stranaham som Arnold Palmer verdsatte høyt.
Les også om Miller Barber og Bill Campbell. Interessant golfhistorie fra Arnold
Palmer.
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