European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                An eager Nicklaus my i w i by Dave Anderson new York times in the attic above the trocar garage of their sprawling Home in North Palm Jack Nicklaus and his 7yearold were filming a television take after the worlds most prestigious golfer never flubbed a but now he suddenly Shook is head and stopped what did you dad Michael asked i messed his father they and Nicklaus told the i told you id be the one to mess but after a few More director was Well break for an the director Well shoot the next one in the living Nicklaus Thall give me some time to hit some Golf balls in the the backyard is not just a on the Patio several mounted Gam fish were on the Walls  7 John k in really excited about playing Golf this year Jack near a pingpong beyond the swimming two outboards Hung above the White wooden Dock jutting out into Lake Worth Breeze chopped to the past the driveway basketball yellow Gold Flag Sticks were planted about 20 Yards apart on what is normally two grass Tennis but there were no no net i stopped playing Tennis last Nicklaus was spying its time to play Golf at his feet were about three dozen Golf with his Sand he was flipping them off the grass from about 20 Yards away from one of the nine Small Flag Sticks on his backyard putting which had a Sand trap beyond almost All the balls were stopping within 10 feet of the Many within two or three this is he in really excited about play ing Golf this he looked glancing at one of the Light poles that surrounded the Tennis see How Ive got that Light turned toward the Green he i was out Here putting with some friends on new years and at we went inside for a then we came out i had a 30foot and i told first putt of the this will be indicative of the i knocked it the next morning i came out to hit some Chip shots like in doing on the first i knocked it in the another he was 41 years old on but he sounded like a kid with a new or a golfer with a new and of is exactly what he the wedge game from around the Green that Phil Rodgers taught that been the he sex last year i didst use a single shot in my wedge game that i had used the first 40 years of my he left to play in the Bob Hope desert classic at Palm where he would naturally be hailed for what he accomplished last winning a record tying fourth United states open and a record tying fifth professional golfers association instead of reflecting on last years he is eager to accomplish he was can you do for an encore win pm he said ill probably play about the same number of tournaments i did last and of course in not going to win pm but the most majors Ive Ever won in the year is before i get old id like to win three in a he has won a record 19 major titles four five three British five pea two the next High est total of majors is Bobby Joness Twenty that a Nice Nicklaus i remember Back even before i had 14 or people would ask me How Many majors id like to and id say 20 would be a Nice number to have in the masters is always held in april at the Augusta National Golf club in and he said with a i could look for Ward to number 21 in the open will be held in june at Merion outside i feel Ive got the Opportunity that not Many people have in a he i have the and i think my ability is i dont know if it will work out that maybe i dont make the he smiled but i think ill make the Over nearly two decades on the pea tour he has earned a record and has the lowest career scoring strokes per around the he has won 86 including 68 tour at this time last he doubted he failed to win a tournament in the first time that had happened since he turned with Only in pea tour he ranked 71st on the Money winning he seemed to have lost his that was apparent the Friday night of the 1978 open at he said that night with a tired shrug after barely making the Cut for the final 36 i guess Ive got to go out and play again his Short to use his was when he missed the he usually missed saving he appeared ready to devote himself to being a conglomerate unto Golden Bear which handles his commercial and his Golf course design throughout the there Are 40 courses that he has designed or has under contract to his 12room suite of with 27 is Only five minutes from his but he decided to compete last year despite the problems with his i want looking Forward to he acknowledged watching another Chip shot skid to a Stop near the 11 i haunt played Well in and i didst see any Prospect of i wanted to play but i didst know How i didst like my i didst like my Short i never had a Good Short game Jack the teaching pro who been with me since i was a kid in changed my but my Short game was still one evening at last years Bing Crosby Tournai Nicklaus had dinner with John another touring John told go talk to Phil Rodgers about your Short game hell help Nicklaus a onetime touring had been a magician with the i told John that id Call Phil in san but i didst get around to Nicklaus then the week of the open at Phil came up to me and let me help that Friday afternoon we went Over to another and lie started showing me the the next Back at i had a Little 30 Page 14 the stars and stripes in Here a oui six Reet until May to find out How hard to hit to really know what i was in the backyard 19yearold Jackie Nicklaus had returned from playing Golf at nearby Frenchman i had a reported the University of North Carolina who is there on a Golf Nicklaus stepped away from the balls that he was Chipping to the Jackie straightened out my putting last year just before the he at my memorial tournament i was awful on the and Jackie told you seem to be breaking your putting stroke after you make con he was with a wedge a new swing and a new putting Nicklaus shot a record tying 63 in the first round of the open at Baltusrol and went on to win with a record 272 when i think of he i think of that Long Birdie putt on the 17th that the putt that made the difference because that when i knew i was going to i think in still feeling the results of that if i haunt won the open and then the pea last i dont think id be so excited it turned around my whole Golf it made me want to play Golf from out on the 11yearold who shot a 79 in a Florida Junior tournament last called to his is it All right if i take the whaler out on the Gary just for a Little ill be his father that wind is whipping up too and its getting you better not go his hour of practice he walked through the game room of his Home where two other 17yearold Steve and 15yearold and several of their friends were playing Steve was recently awarded a football Grant Naid at Florida state As a wide Nan is a volleyball and soccer he talked with the kids for a then went to the Kitchen where his Barba was dodging their two Golden lady and elsewhere in his several of jacks Golf trophies glittered in Glass but the thing in most proud of in my Jack was saying is that being away As much As i that my kids Are Good they dont seem to have any problems because of no ego no identity to have Good kids is the most important thing that Barbara and i can february California fights the Santa Clara county by Wayne King new York times raced hard against the trunk of a Over Laden Grapefruit 15 feet off the Harold Robertson Yeeee Hahhn Yip with help of a gave a mighty loosing a Cas Cade of Chrome yellow fruit and filing the air with the scent of on the ankle deep in a Hal dozen other workers in overalls and hard hats quickly swept up the tainted har Vest at Santa shovelled it into plastic bags marked with Bright Orange and set it at the curb to be picked Down the another Crew did the stripping a backyard Kumquat while still another attacked clipped branched Laden with still Green Lemons be Hind a House next spurred by a sense of Urgen the state of California aided by the Federal department of agriculture and the National guard began an fallout War on a tiny insect called the Mediterranean fruit the prolific Droop winged slightly smaller than a common was discovered in an insect trap last june just South of Santa trem ors of alarm shuddered through califor which produces 40 percent of the nations fresh agricultural officials said the pest might have been brought in inadvertently from since the med As it is has defied eradication efforts and now infests 150 Square Miles of densely populated residential residents Are forbidden to take fruit from an area of More than 500 Square although the infested area now harbours Little commercial residential lawns Are dotted with tens of thousands of Orna mental per pruning Lemon tree in suburban Santa Clara to Battle fruit a guava and nut Many left from the Days when fruit growing was agricultural officials fear that the Hardy which lays its eggs under the skin of fruits and a variety of other producing maggots and will spread to commercial fruit areas in the san Joaquin and Imperial that would threaten billions of dollars Worth of fruit and raise the Specter of import bans by other states and state and Federal efforts to eradicate the pest with ground spraying and introduction of sterile flies to thwart reproduction have a plan for Blanket Aerial spraying of the pesticide Mahu Hion was walked by local governments the tree stripping involving 450 members of the California conservation corps and several Hundred other state employees and a National guard support resulted from a declaration of a state of emergency by Edmund Brown now the workers have begun the arduous task of stripping the gradually working their Way through the Yards of some residences in the infected it now appears that the stripping originally expected to take two will take at least three times As weve been a step behind the said Jerry Leader of the eradication now were working against a biological the end of when the fruit starts ripening and the Fly becomes much More As the stripping Crews sweep though the collecting the fruit for immediate burial in Landfill they Are followed by Crews that lace the Earth where the fruit has fallen with the larvicide Menthion and Spray the denuded Trees with Malathi on to kill residual As the Fly population is thus workers on the ground and in four Light planes Blanket the areas with male fruit flies irradiated with radioactive Cobalt that renders them female flies mate Only and mating with a sterile male cause them to produce infertile irradiated pupae Are being reared by the tens of millions at an empty at least 200 million sterile males Are to be released in order to provide at least 100 sterile males for each Fertile considered the mini mum to All but insure that Only infer tile eggs will be passengers at san Francis co and other area airports Are being warned by signs not to take fruit from the and Security personnel Are instructed to confiscate any that is the stars and stripes Page 15