“Grand Slam” Palmer’s Golf Target This Year

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 12

“Grand Slam” Palmer’s Golf Target This Year

(N.Z.P A.-Reuter— Copyright)

NEW YORK. March 27. Aneld Palmer, the world’s No. one golfer, shortly starts on a trail that he hopes will make him one of the game’s immortals. On April 4, the tenacious Palmer will tee off in the United States Masters tournament—the first on the American’s programme of four events he plans to win this year for golf’s “grand slam.” The other three are the United States and British Open championships and the United States professional title. If he wins all four, in one year, Palmer will become the first player ever to do so. Three times, he has won the Masters, which ties a record in itself, and twice he had the "grand slam” vision almost within his grasp.

In 1960 he won the Masters and the Open, but finished one shot back in the British Open. Last year, Palmer took the Masters and then knew heart-

break again when he finished the United States Open in a tie witl. Jack Nicklaus, only to lose the play-off. Hie bitterness mounted when he went abroad and captured the British Open for the second 1 year in succession “If I don’t make the slam this year or next, I’m going to plan one whole year just for the big four,” he said. “My idea is to cut down to about 12 tournaments for the year, compared with the 30 I played in last year. “I will give it the whole pitch,” he said. “Lots of watching my diet, even doing callisthenics, and no late hours.”