European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 23 59th or it add in the Public is a game where Arnold Palmer buzzes the course at Augusta in his own Jack Nicklaus dines at the White Gary player owns and Tom Watson does commercials for brokerage houses and tries to find tax shelters for the million dollars a year he makes on and off the but there is a far Side of Golf the Public never thinks the Side that makes the papers Only under the heading no qualifiers there Are 225 million people in the probably 25 million play Only 200 Are car carrying members of the Only 60 really belong to the Only the top 60 Money winners can walk up top any tournament drop a tee it and yell fore its the most exclusive fraternity in the Terry Diehl the 59th Best player in the game of Golf he s really much better than last he was Only the 94th the year before Only the you judges you on Money won the same Way society As a whole judges you and not on purity of goodness of heart or Charity of unless you have won a whole Bunch of major recently or finished very High in the tournaments you didst you dont get to tee it up in this multimillion Dollar High you have to have won a open or pea in the past 10 or have won a tournament in the past 12 or won More Money than All but 59 other golfers in the its a self defeating if youre not one of the top 60 Money you dont get to play in enough events to become its if youre Jack Nicklaus and youre faced with a 240yard shot Over stand ing at even you can pull out the Wood and go for if you make youve made Eagle and probably won the if you dont make you if youre Jack that i 11 1 sponsors tearfully for a special they Send cars for Tom they make you shoot your Way once you make the you can go for but until you you have to bet the cards you not the ones you you fold the hand unless you have bullets in other for Terry Diehl to make the top 60 last year was almost As remarkable a feat As for Jack Nicklaus to win his fourth open and fifth Terry was standing in the rain As the season you could never Call Terry Diehl a the term the tour uses to describe the monday morning but you cannot afford to you play for a you go for the fat part of the you lag the you take an Iron off the tee if theres trouble on the you play in you have to make that just so you dont have to tee up in the Early morning Dew on mondays or phone up the top60 club member Terry Diehl you have to shoot your Way in Terry had to shoot or talk his Way into every tournament he could last he had to win any Way he once in a you have to make the Cut or Back to the Rabbit Terry talked his Way into the Hartford open and from then he needed no help from he made 13 cuts in a Row at the pea in his native he electrified the Golf world by nearly pulling off the he was chasing Nicklaus boldly in the final round when a Bunker shot caught the squirted to the chromed off the ankle of a Spectator and went 35 Yards out of terrys penalty drop in the Bunker plugged buried itself so deeply in Sand As to be not to say Terry made 8 on the Hole and faded to ninth you hardly Ever get to practice a drop in a Sand if Tom Watson want in the its be cause he didst want to if Terry Diehl want in it was because he out shoot 100 other golfers trying for the six places As any player will Tell Terry Diehl is probably no worse than 15th on any list of golfers you want to he has even won one Tournai and before you throw that stat consider that Jerry Pate won last year without win Ning a and Terry Diehl was tied with Lee trevo in the Texas open on the final Hole last year when Lee curled in a 25foot putt according to broke five it was the kind of putt you Only Hope to get Terry in other the kind of putt a Rabbit would have to lag to prevent a but Lee Trevino can play to he can Call for he can say hit can Terry i made a pact with myself two years i said i could either just make a Good living off Golf which i could or try to be one of the great when i finished premed i had to decide whether to be a golfer or a i decided i didst want to give up medi Cine just to be a Guy who goes out and shoots makes the and buys a condominium in 1 wanted people to know i was you the Only tournament i Ever won i had to make or have my card picked theres a lesson life has always been a Long par5 Over water for the difference now is he can go for i need a great year just to get Back to he c los Angeles time record 97 players seek arbitration continued from Page 21 Ter meetings last december and also assumed his they have to negotiate yet with who is on the last year of his Oakland has three of its Star players on the arbitration including run Nerup in the balloting for the Al by Young outfielder Tony armas and Pitcher Matt Keough also have filed for Kemp will most Likely be taking the de troit tigers to arbitration for the second straight in he won his request for after the tigers had offered him this year who batted with 21 homers and 103 runs batted in last is believed to be seeking 000 while the tigers Are offering even if i Kemp its not going to be a Good i have to do what i think is and even if i lose its still what i thought i had to crones filing for arbitration with the new York Yankees is interesting in Light of the fact that the clubs principal George has shelled out Mil Lions in recent years to sign several free said last october that he considered Cerone one of the main reasons Why the Yankees won the Al the Yankees would like to sign Cerone to a Lon term contract since he can become a free agent in two but in the multiyear Deal they have offered the numbers Arent close to what i feel in said i look at this As a Way to protect so in All my agents dealings with the George Steinbrenner Hast been 1 suppose Hes had other things concerning and eventually hell get around to i think a multiyear Deal would be beneficial for All i Hope things can be worked either were we feel we have a Good other prominent names who have filed for arbitration Are outfielder Omar Moreno of third baseman Carney lans Ford of Boston and outfielder Steve Hender son of the new York Tal Smith says astros wont take him Back Houston a former Houston astros president and general manager Tal fired last 27 in an unpopular move by owner John said tues Day night he will not be rehired As had been widely Smith said he was informed that he would not be invited Back under the teams new corporate Mcmullen expressed when told of Smiths he said no decision had been officially made involving the Issue at i is will the new Board of directors hire Tal Smith Back or Mcmullen the Board has t been legally formed am i being too technical for you when Smith was fired last year and re placed with Al limited partners in the astros ownership voted to dissolve the partnership and reorganize As a Corpora lessening Mcmullens it had been widely speculated that when the new organization took Smith be Given his old Job Back by a three Man committee that would operate the Smith said that one of the members of the Threeman committee had agreed with Mcmullen to vote against Smithes i was advised last Friday that certain developments had transpired at last thurs Days meeting that precluded my returning to the Smith under terms of the new corporate Struc All decisions will be made by a com Mittee of three men Herb Ney land and Jack despite a plea in his behalf by Smith said Trotter told owners he would support Mcmullen if it came to a Ive tried to do the Best Job i could for the club since 27 and that wont Rosen i didst know any thing about this until i heard it on the news Smith was hired As president and general manager by Neyland five years ago to pull the astros out of the National leagues Western division with shrewd trading and a close watch on a tight Smith and manager Bill Virdon rebuilt the astros into the 1980 Western division Houston lost the National league playoffs to eventual world series Champion Philadelphia in a dramatic five game i had been told that this was something that John Mcmullen had sought since their agreement on the courthouse Steps Smith to reach an you have to satisfy both and that what they Smith referred to an out court settlement 27 when Mcmulle agreed to reorganize the astros As a corporation with out a lengthy court although it was speculated that the move ended Mcmullens reign As sole authority of the the determined new York snip Ping millionaire continued to Battle to keep Rosen As general Smith said he had not entertained any other Job anticipating a return to his old but he would now Start looking for a
