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History drips off Manly Golf Club. Sam Snead and Walter Hagen played at Manly, and so did Bobby Locke. Jack Nicklaus is co-holder of the course record for the 62 he shot in the second round of the 1971 Dunlop International.
By the Sunday afternoon, Nicklaus was atop a leaderboard which included Gary Player, Norman von Nida, David Graham, Kel Nagle, Bruce Crampton, Peter Oosterhuis, Billy Dunk, Bruce Devlin, Jack Newton, Graham Marsh, Frank Phillips, Guy Wolstenholme and Peter “Five Times” Thomson.
Likely not reading about the tournament at home in Townsville was 16-year-old spear-fisherman Greg Norman, who’d just taken up the sport. By 1978 he would shoot 64 at Manly and win the NSW Open. It was the occasion of the club’s 75th-year diamond jubilee.
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