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There is a new vogue on the professional golf tour, and if its impact on the game does not exactly rival in importance the invention of the sand wedge, it is still significant. This year's In act is the Exhaustion Syndrome, or Too Pooped to Putt, and it is having a bewildering effect on a sport that never before had been thought to equal, say, pro football in terms of physical demands. In the last two months there has hardly been a big-name pro strong enough to lift a club head. Bruce Devlin was still holding his $35,000 check for winning the Carling World Open in England when he said, "I'm really tired from the circuit. I'm going to take a nice long rest." The week before that, Don January won the $21,000 first prize at the Philadelphia Golf Classic, the biggest purse of his life and his first victory since 1963. How did he feel? the press asked. "I'm tired, very tired," said January. "I'm going home to rest." And then there were Billy Casper and Jack Nicklaus, the two leading money-winners on the tour this year. They were sitting at a table during the World Series of Golf (where winner Gene Littler earned $50,000) discussing the strains of competition. Nicklaus: "Once a fellow plays three tournaments in a row he wants to..." Casper : "Go fishing." Nicklaus: "That's right." And this week Casper and Nicklaus are doing just that, with Billy fishing in the Pacific Northwest and Nicklaus trying his angling luck in Florida. This how-tired-I-am trend started with Arnold Palmer a year or more ago, and Palmer had good reason. A man with several million dollars in business enterprises depending on him, he led a frantic life that hampered his golf. When asked what the trouble was with his game, he repeatedly said he was too tired to concentrate, and he still says so. "All I need is some rest," Palmer stormed after a vexing final-round 77 at Hartford just last month, one that spurred him to a four-week vacation.    
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