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D6 Palm Beach Pott, Monday, March 13, 1178 Nine Hours of Golf Is Enough GOLF TENNIS WORLD ANNIVERSARY If! finished signing their scorecards, a small knot of tired men grew larger and larger. The caddies were collapsing near each other and commiserating. "Why don't you go home and go to sleep?" a small girl asked one of them. "I'd like to, but I can't move," he replied. Rogers' caddy, a brooding man known as Smiley, lugged his pro's oversized bag underneath a tree and sat wearily.

A friend passed and Smiley said, "Gonna sleep good tonight." pace proved too much for the gallery. People kept dropping out like soldiers on a long march, retreating to the shade where they either went to sleep or simpley stared blankly at the passing pros. The schedule was not even overly kind to the leaders, those whose efforts are normally rewarded by the opportunity to sleep a little later and tee off in full view of the gallery. Ed Fiori, Gibby Gilbert and John Mahaffey went off at 8:20 in the morning, the last threesome to start. As the players trooped home and ON GOLF CLUBS, EQUIPMENT AND CLOTHING! ON TENNIS RACKETS, EQUIPMENT AND CLOTHING LCOUaeWTIraNlS I WE CARRY A COMPLETE INVENTORY AIR CONDITIONING TUNE-UP TRANSMISSION TUNE-UP AGI PING LYNX SPALDING POWER BUT HOGAN LEGEND STAG NITRO 600 TITIEIST ACUSHNET WILSON HEAD DAVIS SNAUWEART DUNLOP MACGPEGOR ROYAL DAISY A.

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Adjust Band 3. CIan Filter 4. Inctudvt nw ATF O.I moN By RANDY SCHULTZ Part Staff Writer MIAMI The sun rose over the Doral Country Club yesterday morning at 6:33. Twenty-seven minutes later, Ben Crenshaw, Bill Rogers and Ed Dougherty teed off and began a working day that would not end until nine hours later. Because rain Thursday caused a halt in play before all the golfers had finished their first round in the Doral Open, the third and fourth rounds had to be played yesterday, early enough to rouse the course's mud hens from their nocturnal roosts.

Dawn usually is reserved at a golf course for the most anonymous players. Granted Dougherty, who has won just slightly more than $44,000 in his career, might fit that characterization, but Crenshaw has won more than a half million dollars and Rogers was victorious this year at Pebble Beach. But Crenshaw's 36-hole score of 142 and Rogers of 143 left them far enough behind to draw the sleepy start. "We had a few relatives with us," Rogers said after finishing with a 67 despite the fatigue and a 282 for the tournament, six under par. "You can't expect anybody but kin to get up at that hour and go around with you." Crenshaw, who had rounds of 72 and 69 to finish at 283, was up at five in the morning, not so much to practice as to gain his equilibrium.

"We're not usually stuck this way," he said, though this is the second week in a row that 36 holes have had to be played on Sunday. "We're in shape. We can walk 36 all right. One thing, you can sure play at your own pace. There's not gonna be anybody in front to slow you up." Rogers was more honest about the effects of the long day, admitting, "I'm dead tired right now.

It's not so much the play as it is just staying on your feet all that time. What you have to do is pace yourself so that you don't collapse in the middle of the round. Just after. "Playing 36 on the last day really does upset the tournament. Someone can catch momentum in the morning and then doesn't have to wait, can play right then and carry it over.

Or you can have a good first round and then get tired and lose it, when you might have been able, with some rest, to shoot well the next day and win. If we had it our way, we'd play on Monday and change plane reservations." But the golfers do not have it their way. Television does, as all the early starters acknowledged. A spillover of the tournament into Monday upsets the nicely wrapped package that the networks CBS in the case of Doral, NBC last week at the Citrus Open in Orlando have bought to send across the country. Even the players concede that the networks hold all the cards.

"Television foots the bill and all," Rogers said. "They're the ones that make it possible for us to play for all this money ($200,000 at Doral) and so there really isn't anything that can be done about it. You can't really complain. Playing this much in one day does water things down, but what can you say?" Added Crenshaw, "We fit into the television people's plans, that's all I know. I don't even think about it now.

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Nicklaus would not let up. His iron shot stopped dead, only four feet from the hole and it looked as if the tournament might be tied when Weiskopf's second putt came up longer than Nicklaus' first. Here, though, Weiskopf won the Doral. With a blond mother muffling the cries of her infant daughter, Weiskopf got his par and could look on less painfully as Nicklaus made birdie. "On the 18th hole," Nicklaus said, "Tom turned to me and said, "This is the first time I've had to make par to win a He was excited, so was I.

I just kept waiting to see what would happen next. I hit into the sand on 15 and Greg (Powers) asked me if I was going to make it. I said, 'Keep your eyes open, because it's gonna be Nicklaus was so accurate from off the greens that he needed only nine putts on the last 10 holes, and appropriately, be found himself off the green, 1 foot from a water hazard, after pushing his second shot on the 18th hole. The players got a standing ovation from the spectators and one of them, knowing that Nicklaus would have to hole out to tie, called to him, "One more chip." Yet Weiskopf himself had made birdies on the 10th, 11th and 12th holes, and as Nicklaus would acknowledge later, "I only picked up one shot. Heck, if I'd made birdies instead of eagles I would have lost two shots." Added Weiskopf, "the key to my winning was the way I played those three holes.

I played them perfectly and that gave me the confidence I needed going home. Without that, I don't know what would have happened." And Weiskopf did not overlook a break that no doubt had been forgotten by many people. "I was in the morning group on Thursday, the group that got most of its round in before the rain came and things had to be called off. (He had a 67.) We only played about five or six holes in the rain and it was a very light rain at that. "The next day was when the winds came and everybody else had to finish their first round, i was up at Pine Tree in Delray on Friday and I said to someone, 'If the winds are as hard down there as they are here, no one's gonna break He was right.

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