Bobby Nichols - Part 3 (Lighting, the Majors and Ryder Cup)

Kathy Cornelius 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

Bruce Devlin 0:13

Then it started to You won a couple of times in 1974, starting uh in January at the Andy Williams San Diego Open.

Bobby Nichols 0:22

Andy Williams San Diego Open, yeah. Yep, I remember that San Diego seemed to be doing pretty good for me.

Bruce Devlin 0:31

You were missed to consistency that week, shooting rounds of 69, 69, 68, 69. Uh-huh. And you beat a pretty you also beat a pretty good player that year, too. Uh probably one of the greatest swingers of a golf club that ever lived. Gene Little.

Bobby Nichols 0:50

Yeah, I know you guys say Gene Lennon. Gene, Gene the machine. Yeah, there's no doubt. He was, you're right, Bruce. He was uh he was one of the best.

Mike Gonzalez 1:02

No doubt. Yeah, what a beautiful golf swing. And uh the other guy that was one back too was Rod Curl, as I remember. Rod Curl, yeah. He was the first full-blooded Native American on tours I remember.

Bobby Nichols 1:14

I uh oh that's right. He was. He probably was. But uh one thing I remember about Gene, about his not only about his golf swing, but I looked at his hands. He had the best looking pair of hands you've ever. I don't say best looking. Well, I guess for me it was best looking. They were just they looked like they were elbow, bold, just perfect, big, thick, and and when he put them on the golf club, I mean it looked like they were bold. They're just so perfect. And that's uh what even in his pudding, it was like I never will forget. Every time I watched Gene play, I always looked at his hands because he met them uh meserized me or something. It's amazing.

Mike Gonzalez 2:06

Well, you guys always do talk about going back to basics, don't you, in terms of fundamentals? Mm-hmm.

Bobby Nichols 2:13

I I think because you know, really when you stop and think about it, uh what what else have you got come to contact with the golf club other than your hands? So if your hands don't have any feel, you're not gonna do too well. You gotta you gotta have feel feel in those feeling of those hands and feel the golf swing. I mean, you it it just works hand works hand in hand. And if you got a good pair of hands like Gene Lindler had, I mean, not not too many people have.

Bruce Devlin 2:50

So Bobby, to finish finish, finish off the victories on uh on the regular tour for you, you won the uh Canadian Open again with a you know what a consistency that that week was 67, 67, 68, 68, and you beat John Schley and Larry Ziegler by four shots.

Bobby Nichols 3:09

Larry Ziegler, yeah. Yeah, that was funny. It was uh that was a Mississauga, it was uh they're they're in turn. Great old club. Yeah, that's right, it was. It had a lot of uh tournaments, but it it rained all that week uh before it was really saturated. And uh luckily we got it quit raining and we got we got the tournament off and got it finished.

Mike Gonzalez 3:40

Bobby, back then, that back then that tournament was like a major, wasn't it?

Bobby Nichols 3:46

Well, it was uh considered if you if like for example Bruce wins two majors. Canadian up and when it would go in. Was was the first alternate.

Mike Gonzalez 3:59

Well, let's talk about let's talk about 1975 because that was uh an important important year in your career, not in a good way, but uh having lived just a few miles away from Butler National uh in Oakbrook, Illinois, I remember this one like it was yesterday as well. This is the 1975 Western Open, and it came uh just a week after the U.S. Open was contested at Medina. That's when Lou Graham won. But uh tell us about that week.

Bobby Nichols 4:32

Oh boy, that I don't remember a whole lot about it, but it it was uh I remember I was playing with Bob Dixon and Tony Jacklin, and we were going up the fourth fairway of Butler National, and it was going up the hill, and to the right uh left of the green was a big huge lake, and on the other side of the lake was the 13th, uh 13th uh uh T Ba uh Green.

Mike Gonzalez 5:09

Yeah, that's a that's a good downhill par three, and then 14 you're talking about goes around the lake right to left. Yeah.

Bobby Nichols 5:16

Oh, you're familiar with it, right?

Mike Gonzalez 5:17

Oh, sure. Yeah.

Bobby Nichols 5:19

So uh anyway, uh as in Chicago, it there's a lot of times it would be overcast, you wouldn't pay a whole lot of attention. But this particular day it was overcast, and still we weren't paying a whole lot of attention to nothing that happened, and all of a sudden, crack went across the skies. I mean, it it sounded like the end of the world. It was so loud and cracked. What I think happened, it I don't know what I I say I think, I have no idea what really happened. It must have hit the s hit hit the leak because uh as I was when it when that happened, I was on the ground, and when I looked up, my guy had uh was carrying the side, the side was fly uh looked like it was fluttering through the air. His name was Pete uh I forgot Pete's last name, but God has been so long ago. Anyway, he uh we both I got up, I started running. Because I was hysterical. I didn't know what had happened, it was really weird. And uh I was I don't know if I was in my right mind or what, but uh anyways, I started running and I was running and finally I ran we when uh there was a there was a tent at the end of the of the uh fourth fairway, fourth green, and we went in there and that's where I went in and I sat down and I I got my breath and I was and I s and I tasted like like something that being like a charcoal of my mouth was I thought what that's kind of weird to taste in my mouth. Was kind of I guess you know I was going like this. Anyways, I was sitting there and uh doctor came over and he looked at me and he says, uh Bobby, are you all right? And I said, Well, I I guess so. He looked up, he said, look up, look up at me. So I looked up at him and he looked right, he said, Come on, we're going to the hospital. So he took me to Hensdale Hospital there and they put me under a 48 hour uh with all these gadgets and my head and body and everything. You you all familiar with that. Anyway, I did there for two days, and I didn't realize that Jerry Heard and uh Lee Trevino were were also the same way in another part of the hospital. And uh, but uh it's it's it's it it it was weird how it happened.

Bruce Devlin 8:30

But if we look if we look back, Bobby, uh that was the one incident that happened on the PGA tour that forced the tour to start monitoring uh storms that were coming towards the golf course. Because I remember I was actually standing on a T and saw Jerry Heard and Lee Travina get knocked over by the lightning. Didn't you? Yeah, it was it was scary as hell. I thought, you know, the lady scorer and and the boy scorer with them too, they all got knocked down. Yeah, it was it was shocking.

Bobby Nichols 9:09

That's weird how that lightning what what it does. It's it's uh it's hard to explain when it does happen. You say, what was that? Or something you realize it's it just happens, and you wonder how it happens. Oh, it's like you say, God, it's it's scary.

Mike Gonzalez 9:28

So Bobby, take us through the aftermath of that. Uh you you spent a couple days in the hospital observation, obviously had some effect to that. Uh was it just not the same after that?

Bobby Nichols 9:40

Oh, I don't I don't know if it really affected me long term. Uh it may have in some ways, uh uh maybe uh but I don't I don't know. I can't recall any particular uh incident may that may have been a uh because of the lighting itself. Uh no, I th I think I'm okay as far as uh the aftermath. I hope I hope so. My wife says, well, he's he's he's more electrifying. Whether that's good or bad. But anyways, we don't uh I don't think it really bothers uh affected me long term. But it could have, but I don't know, I don't think so.

Mike Gonzalez 10:34

Well, we had a chance to talk about your 12 triumphs on the PGA tour. Let's just touch on major championship experience. We talked obviously about the PGA, but uh as I look at your as I look at your major championship record, the thing that really impresses me, and again I mentioned this to Bruce before we came on. I don't know if you remember this, but you made 36 of your first 38 cuts in major championships.

Bruce Devlin 11:00

Pretty good, pretty good, Bobby.

Bobby Nichols 11:03

That is better than I didn't know it was that good. That's nice to hear good things like that.

Mike Gonzalez 11:10

That that's I don't remember seeing a better record in the first 38 events. I'd have to go back through the guys we've talked to, but that's pretty impressive. That's nice. I never realized that. What's your what's your remembrances of the Masters?

Bobby Nichols 11:28

Uh well I um the bet of course the best I played was in 75 when I played finished second to uh gay in in 1976. Yeah, 1967.

Mike Gonzalez 11:46

But yeah.

Bobby Nichols 11:47

Uh it seemed like I never was I never conquered those greens. They were always tough to put, and I just didn't seem like uh I could get anything going. Although a couple times the 75 of it had a 67 the first round and and a couple things like that. But uh one thing about uh the masters, and everybody when when the when the master's time came around, people uh people would really get excited in uh and the fact that the green you knew the golf course was gonna be in perfect shape and the greens were gonna be this. But we weren't used to greens like that until you got to the masters. Yeah. Because all our greens were a lot slower, and Bruce will verify this. For sure. A lot slower and and they were bumpier and they were of uh of different graces. But it seemed like the masters had this cut close enough to be slick and smooth and whatever else. Whereas we never played in Greens like that ever, ever. Uh throughout the year. So it was really a it was just special.

Mike Gonzalez 13:09

Well, 67, you mentioned that was uh uh second place by one to Gay Brewer. Uh Brewer the prior year had three-putted the last goal.

Bobby Nichols 13:17

Yeah, he sure did.

Mike Gonzalez 13:18

And then lost in a playoff to Jack Nicholas. Right. And then came back and won it the next year.

Bobby Nichols 13:24

Yep, sure did. He uh I said, why in the heck did you have to three-putt that oh, why did you just you might not have played so well the next year?

Mike Gonzalez 13:37

Well, and that 67 Masters was Ben Hogan's last masters as well.

Bobby Nichols 13:41

Yes, they were. Yes, they were.

Mike Gonzalez 13:44

You mentioned uh 1975, that's when you tied fourth. Nicholas won that year. As you mentioned, first round leader, you were with a 67. Right. And then in 1974, uh you were two back after 54 uh what the year Gary Player won. Right. I remember that. So you you played you played Augusta National pretty well. Sometimes, yeah.

Bruce Devlin 14:05

It was but you're right, those greens were always difficult, Bobby, weren't they? They were always, always difficult, then.

Bobby Nichols 14:15

You really had to. Well, I used to I used to play practice rounds with Carrie Middlecoff. Carrie and I became fairly good friends. When I'd go to the masters, I'd always ask to uh I'd I'd get contact him and have have him, or what what won't be a practice round with him. And he would tell me where to place certain holes and stuff. He was really, really helpful. But I I'll never forget on the 12th, on the part on part three, number twelve, he said, you know, a lot of people, they always talked about people putting it in the water and costing the tournament and doing this and doing that, and and going for the pen, and when it was in that far right, it was a small area, and this and that. He says, whenever that or rather, any day you play this hole, you look at that trap, he says, you play it right over the middle of that trap and don't look left or right. No flag. And uh you're you're that's right, and you won't put it in the water. And sure enough, I never put it in the water on 12. And uh I never went for the flag, but uh I never put it in the water.

Mike Gonzalez 15:41

Yep. Yep. Uh let's touch a little bit on the U.S. Open because you had some you had some good performances there as well. Four top tens, a couple of top fives. What was probably your best chance to win the U.S. Open? I think it's first 63.

Bobby Nichols 15:58

I was uh tied with uh I forgot Oakland at Oakland Oakbott. Oakbond. Yeah, that's where it was, Oakbond. And uh I was tied with Gary and I had played a third round together. And after the third round, we were both tied at 211. And so we're we're playing off the final group in those days. No those days we played 36 holes on Sunday. So after the first after the two after the morning round, we broke and had uh like 30 minutes or 45 minutes for for lunch and that was it. And then you head right back out. So we did that. Now I'm getting ready to go. Well we're getting ready to go, but I can't find my caddy. Don't know where the heck he is. He was a young kid, just local kid. Anyways, one thing and I never I never told him anything after I got through the morning round, but I assumed he knew that we had played. Anyway, we finally found him under a tree, or a friend of mine found him under a tree eating a sandwich, and he was just and he was he had his box of the first tea. And I thought, well, anyways. He thought he was done for the day. Yeah, he thought he was done for the day. Anyways, luckily, Gary Plair had hit the tea shot, and Joe Dye was the uh head of the US, I'll be a head of the PG PGA then, or USGA.

Mike Gonzalez 17:39

Yeah, USGA then, yeah.

Bobby Nichols 17:41

And uh the uh he told me he said, Bobby, he says, I'm gonna have to find you unless you can go. So Gary hit his T shot and he walked very slowly off the T. And he didn't get to his, and luckily the kid showed up before he got to his his T shot or something. I don't know what the rule was. Uh if if he'd hit a second shot, then I think I'd be DQ'd.

Bruce Devlin 18:13

Or add two, I think. You might have got two shot penalty. Yeah, two shot penalty, right. Right.

Bobby Nichols 18:18

That might be more out of it.

Mike Gonzalez 18:19

But you were able to you were able to get off in time.

Bobby Nichols 18:22

I was able to get off in time, but then I double bogeyed the first hole, and uh then I lost my two. I lost my two when I bogeyed the sixth, I bogeyed the 15th, and the eighteenth. But uh uh finished two shots back.

Mike Gonzalez 18:44

Yeah, yeah, and that was the year uh 1962 that the Jack beat Arnie uh in a playoff.

Bobby Nichols 18:50

Right, correct.

Bruce Devlin 18:52

Mm-hmm.

Mike Gonzalez 18:53

Yep. Sure it was. Oh, yeah. You had some other good finishes at Olympic, uh good finish at Oak Hill, good finish at Marion, the year Trevino won.

Bobby Nichols 19:02

Oh yeah. I played with him uh f uh uh let's see uh played with the third round, I think it was. Yeah. Vividly remember that.

Mike Gonzalez 19:19

Yeah. And uh and then in the PGA championship, uh uh, I guess Aranamink maybe was your other opportunity there uh in 1962, where you were sixth when Gary Player won there.

Bobby Nichols 19:31

Yeah, I remember Gary won that.

Mike Gonzalez 19:33

Sure did. And that's the year that uh that's the year actually that they moved that tournament. It was scheduled to be played in Brentwood uh Country Club in California. Uh-huh. And uh they moved it to Pennsylvania because California said, look, if you PGA are going to continue with your Caucasian-only policy, which had just been eliminated, I think, the previous November. And so uh they actually said you you guys aren't playing here until you get that fixed. Well, they didn't get it fixed in time, and they ended up moving the tournament to a runamink.

Bruce Devlin 20:03

I didn't know that. No, I'd I'd forgotten that too.

unknown 20:07

Oh.

Mike Gonzalez 20:11

Uh Ryder Cup, you had a chance to compete in the 1967 victory at Champions Golf Club with the captain. Once again, Ben Hogan comes into your life. Mr. Hard now.

Bobby Nichols 20:26

When we were all together there in a locker room, he was he was holding court and uh kind of asking us questions. Who who would we get it? Who would we he was asking us, uh the entire team was sitting in front of him, well, who would we like to play with as a team? As we in particular, people that we'd like to play with. Well, Johnny's but Johnny Pod spoke up and said, Well, Bobby and I like to play together because we don't care if we get it in the woods, we'll we'll go find it and hit it out. And Mr. Hogan looked at him and said, Okay, you can you two be compatible or whatever? And we said, Well, yes, sir. And so he said, Okay, you two play together. And we we didn't, we won all matches. We were four, I think four, four, four, four wins and one tie.

Mike Gonzalez 21:30

Pretty good. Yeah, you and Billy you and Billy Casper led the U.S. team with four and a half points. Uh that's right. Uh we talked to Al Geiberger last week. Al was on that team with you, wasn't he? Yeah, he sure was. And he said Mr. Hogan was pretty efficient with his words in the team speeches.

Bobby Nichols 21:49

Yes, he was. Like I said, back he he just never were he never wasted words, it didn't seem like. He just always right to the point. That was it.

Mike Gonzalez 22:01

What what do you remember about Arnold Palmer and his airplane that tell you.

Bobby Nichols 22:07

Anyway, we're all out there playing, and he Mr. Hogan's out there in a golf cart, walking, I mean, driving riding around, watching this and everything. And sir uh he was I don't remember where he was setting exactly, what ho or whatever. Here comes Arnold. Here comes Arnold flying. He's got his jet flying over like this. And he and he waves his wings like that. And Hogan looks up, looks up and doesn't say anything. Goes back to whatever he was doing, whatever. But I don't recall him saying anything. So the first round of the tournament No, this is this is a practice round. But anyways, the first round of the tournament, uh the first round of the tournament, the newspaper there, they got the pairings, and they would go down the list and the pairings, and then the other side put their pairings up. So anyways, they were looking at the pairings and they noticed Mr. Pauber's name is not on there. And they thought, well, how could that be? He's he's the king and he's the captain, more or less. And they said they didn't say a word, and so uh one of the uh sports writers asked him, Mr. Mr. Hogut, what what's the pro what what happened to Mr. Palmer? How come he's not in the lineup? And you know what he said? Just because I said so.

Bruce Devlin 23:56

That was it.

Bobby Nichols 23:58

Because I said so. Yeah, he said.

Mike Gonzalez 24:02

Yep. That was it. Now that was it. The captain, the captain got a chance to pick which ball you guys played.

Bobby Nichols 24:08

Oh, yeah, by the way, that's right. Uh what had happened, we were also asking the locker room. When we had the option, you could play the big ball or the little ball, I think I call it a 65 or something. Anyway, uh Doug spoke up and said, Mr. Palmer, or rather, Mr. Hogan, what what what ball should we play? And it took him by surprise. He said, Well, I I don't think that's much of a decision. You can't hit that little ball out of the fairway. And Mr. Doug said, Well, I think we can. Well, he said, but uh, yes, he said a small ball would be the thing to do. Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 24:54

Yeah.

Bobby Nichols 24:54

So we used the small ball.

Mike Gonzalez 24:56

He made the call on that one.

Bobby Nichols 24:57

Yeah, he made the call on that one. Yeah. I think we would have. You can't hit the little one out of the fairway. I love that. I love it. He he was something.

Mike Gonzalez 25:11

Well, you you came out of your regular tour play and uh joined the senior tour when you turned age 50. Uh played the senior tour for 10 years, right, and uh had a victory at the 1989 Southwestern Bell Classic in a playoff with the Sarge. That's right. You lasted 10 years. Uh uh How did you hold up physically over those 10 years from age 50 to age 60?

Bobby Nichols 25:38

Well, uh, some people's bodies uh I think we all agree well they hold up better because you can see it in a few of the players today that play up until 60, and even in their la early 70s. I mean, it's Bernhard Langer is a great example. Yeah, yeah, that's a good example. Exactly. Bernhard is a perfect example. And uh if your body holds up, like as you could play, I guess, to those uh those golden years are more or less, but uh I was my body after a few things happened up when I was growing up with the wreck and a few things, and a few knocks here and there, my body just didn't just it it h it would hurt. And uh like like I'm saying I'm talking like uh lot a lot of like a lot of guys uh that by my age feel that hurt. But I'm not I'm not complaining at all. I'm just I just don't swing a golf club is just no fun.

Bruce Devlin 26:50

Yeah.

Bobby Nichols 26:51

It just hurt. My hands hurt, my b body hurts, my fingers hurt, and I mean uh it just they just don't uh arthritis sets in and just things it's no fun playing. So if it's no fun playing, there's no sense in playing. Luckily, I didn't have to play after uh after I had my job at Firestone. It'd be it was uh just phenomenal. And uh playing a senior tour was uh something that wasn't uh wasn't really something that I uh look forward to playing doing, but uh I played a few years and I'm glad I did. But uh it's it's a it's it's been a great thing for a lot of a lot of good play a lot of players of the 15 over group.

Bruce Devlin 27:44

Sure has been really nice. So, Bobby, for the last 20 years you've been involved with uh the Bobby Nichols Fiddlesticks Charity Foundation, and you've had a pretty good MC that's uh helped you guys make 20 15 million dollars in those 20 years. Pretty fancy, boy.

Bobby Nichols 28:04

It is, it is pretty fancy. I mean, just beyond all expectations. I when we first, I remember Earl Holland, uh John Gentleman, and Jack Rogers, and uh when we first started in 1980, they said uh we'll try to help the kids be uh uh be used. The Glass Kids is here in Southwest Florida and see if we can't uh uh uh uh have a tournament that's uh a charity that would uh benefit the local people here, the local charities, right, and so forth. And so we decided to do that. And uh Earl looked at, and now Earl's pretty wealthy guy, and he said, Well, we don't have any money, where do we start? And we all looked at him and said, Well, well, we're looking at someone that might get us started. Anyways, yeah, anyways, he got us started. And it went from one hundred and thirty-four thousand the first year I remember, but I don't remember exactly the figures on down through the years. But up until this year it was 13 and a half. This year it raised 1.7.

Bruce Devlin 29:24

Nice, isn't that great?

Bobby Nichols 29:25

That is great. Now we're gonna give away a million and a half, so it'll be 15 million that we've given away to the abused kids, neglected kids in Southwest Florida. Good to do. And we we're lucky, Bruce, we don't have anyone on the payroll. Isn't that great? No one, no one, no one gets paid. Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 29:46

And no one complains. And that MC that the Bruce alluded to was none other than Johnny Bence. Johnny Bence, all time.

Bruce Devlin 29:55

Oh, catch you for the Cincinnati, right?

Bobby Nichols 29:58

Yeah, yeah, big red machine. Yeah. And uh he's been with us. I I bet him I bet him in 68, and uh he was in PP, and I said, uh, Johnny, but uh would you be in, would you uh do something like that? He said, well, right on the right situation. He said, I told him, I said, well, we're gonna start this and that. Would you be the would you be the MC? He said, well, let's start it, let's start it and see what happens. And uh sure enough, still there. After he says, So that he's still there after 20 years. Isn't that great? He's come every year. He really does.

Mike Gonzalez 30:39

What a great legacy that you're leaving with that tournament and that fundraising event. Um as we wind down with you here, uh Bobby, there's always a couple of questions that Bruce and I like to ask our guests. Bruce, you want to go first?

Bruce Devlin 30:52

Yeah, so Bobby. If you knew what you know now when you first started on the tour, what would you have done differently?

Bobby Nichols 31:05

Differently? I I know for one thing I would have made a schedule out to where I'd went and played in the open a few times. I I really am sorry that I didn't I didn't fit that in the schedule, but at the time I just didn't feel like I had it had the time to go there and have the job at Firestone and and uh be playing for tournaments and so forth. Uh I was I was trying to uh Scotty Brubaker, who I answered to, he never, never, ever said anything about how many tournaments I should play in. He just said, whenever you feel like playing, go play. But he's he he knew or he's hoping I wouldn't take advantage of him.

Bruce Devlin 32:00

Right.

Bobby Nichols 32:01

And sure enough, uh it worked out well. So that would be the one number one thing I wish I'd have done, because I missed that. I would like to I'd like to have seen what it would have been like to I watched it on television, but uh it would be it's not like playing, that's for sure.

Mike Gonzalez 32:20

Yeah. So our other question that Bruce and I would have of you, Bobby, is we're gonna give you one career mulligan. Where would where would you take it?

Bobby Nichols 32:33

Uh that would be a good one. I'd say probably the open probably the uh the masters when I was slammed with key. The sixteenth hole there, it's a part of five, I put it on in two uh with a four-iron, and uh but I I I didn't I didn't get up and down. I well I didn't put it on, I put it just over the green uh chip and didn't didn't get it up and down and I believe if I got that one up and down by the uh yeah, by uh 14 if I could have buried that one, which I should have, after hitting a second shot on the green, that would be the one mulligan that I can think of. Uh oh gosh, off my head, that's be about to that would that would be it. Yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 33:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh Bobby, in closing, how would you like to be remembered?

Bobby Nichols 33:45

Well, just just to be remembered is all I can ask for. I'm like I'm like Bruce. We're just all both of us are well, we're from the old school, and we've been to I might say differ different things in the RC. It's hard to explain to the day today's generation when they don't experience you've got to experience what we've been through. Yeah. Not in not in a physical way, but in a mental way and so forth, whatever you.

Bruce Devlin 34:23

So, Bobby, Mr. Nichols, I want to personally, personally thank you for joining us today. We uh we've we've looked forward to chatting with you. I know uh I know you've gone through the COVID issue, and uh Nancy and the two boys have been great, and we thank you for joining us. I know Mike uh I know I know Mike's appreciated as well, Mike.

Mike Gonzalez 34:50

Yep, yeah. Bobby, thanks a million for for us.

Bobby Nichols 34:53

Uh thank you. And uh it's it's been my honor to be on your show. And uh Bruce and I have always admired Bruce throughout the years and what he's done and what he's been through. So you guys keep up the good work and wish you the best, Mike and Bruce. Thank you, buddy.

Mike Gonzalez 35:13

Thank you, Bobby.

Bobby Nichols 35:14

Take care.

Mike Gonzalez 35:15

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Kathy Cornelius 35:39

It went smack down the fairway.