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Watney99

04/27/05 12:35 PM

#2336 RE: BullNBear52 #2333

Yeah, which one is that in the picture? Although I mentioned BBIII some time back, I don't actually watch it . . . but the commercials come up quite a bit and they seem to show her very often . . . r u guys SURE she doesn't have what it takes? Maybe she could do some time on the hooters tour and work her way up from there??


WOOD'S CHIP-IN LOOKED VERY FAMILIAR TO PALMER
by DOUG FERGUSON, Associated Press

Arnold Palmer was watching the final round of the Masters from his Florida home at Bay Hill when Tiger Woods, clinging to a one-shot lead over Chris DiMarco, went long on the par-3 16th and looked as though he would be lucky to get par.

"There's a good chance he doesn't get this inside DiMarco's ball," CBS Sports analyst Lanny Wadkins said.

The King must have been smiling.

He had seen it all -- and heard it all -- four decades earlier.

"I was sitting in my living room describing it to my wife," Palmer said. "I told her I had been in the same position."

The year was 1962, and there were a few differences.

Instead of leading, Palmer was three shots behind Dow Finsterwald and two behind Gary Player when he went over the green on the 16th.




"Mine was a little higher," Palmer said. "If you're looking from front to back, I was considerably right of where Tiger was. (Jimmy) Demaret was up on the tower and I could hear him talking. He was being dramatic. I heard him say, 'If Palmer gets this up and down, it will be a miracle. It's really difficult, the green is really fast' -- all those adjectives. I wanted to look up and tell him, 'Hold it for a minute.'

"I pitched it and it rolled down, much the same as Tiger's did," Palmer said. "It didn't have the same break, but the pin was almost in an identical position. And I won the tournament."

Verne Lundquist made the call for CBS when Woods chipped in.

"Oh, wow!" he said. "In your life, you have ever seen anything like that?"

Well, anyone watching in 1962 probably did.

Then again, Palmer's ball did not hang on the edge of the cup for two full seconds, adding to the drama of the shot. And while Woods and Palmer won the Masters in a playoff, the ending was quite a contrast.

Equipped with a two-shot lead, Woods bogeyed the last two holes and beat DiMarco in sudden death with a 15-foot birdie on the first extra hole.

Palmer, still two shots behind after his chip-in, hit an 8-iron to 15 feet for birdie at No. 17 and got into a three-way playoff when Finsterwald dropped a shot on the 17th. Palmer shot 68 in the 18-hole playoff Monday to beat Player (71) and Finsterwald (77).