Bobby Nichols - "The 1964 CBS Golf Classic" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:10

It went straight down the middle. Then it started to hook just Bobby.

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

I gotta ask you about this. Uh uh and I think it probably came in about this sequence, maybe it was after the Carling. I want to ask you about what you remember about the 1964 CBS Golf Classic 36 hole match between Bruce Devlin and Bob Charles.

Bobby Nichols 0:36

Oh my god.

Mike Gonzalez 0:37

And Bobby Nichols and Tony Lima.

Bobby Nichols 0:40

Do you remember that, Bobby? Do I remember that? I still can't comprehend. You guys were not only good, you were so you were so in the uh well, I don't know what what to say. I really don't know how to explain the Bob Trous and Bruce Devin were just phenomenal. I mean, this phenomenal. We played, we were 11 under par, Tony Lima and I were and we gotta beat Nine and Seven. Nine and seven. I mean, they were just incredible. And uh back in those days, uh that those uh uh there there was no houses around anything, so wind blew and smok uh dust blew. God, it was tough. Yeah. They were they Bruce and Bob Travels I never get that. Well, how could I?

Mike Gonzalez 1:42

I found a uh uh somebody sent us uh uh a video off the old CBS master tapes, because I think the master tapes were were maybe maybe lost in a fire. And so I watched this thing on television, and what was interesting was you guys must have been mic'd up because often every time Devil and Charles made a putt, you and Lima were almost talking to yourself off camera, like I can't believe these guys are making everything.

Bobby Nichols 2:10

They did. They they ever they I don't think they ever let us open, have an opening anywhere. They they filled they filled that cup up before we even had a chance.

Mike Gonzalez 2:22

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Intro Music 2:43

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. Then it started to slice just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay.