Liege Lord Of Golf

Jacklin, far from shaky, picked up two quick shots early and seemed to take all the fight out of anyone who would make a run at him. He faltered a bit later, but Charles could never get the lead below two, and as the pair slashed through those final fiendish holes it surprised no one when they matched each other bogey for bogey. Behind Charles, in the most international of all Open finishes, came De Vicenzo, Thomson, O'Connor, Nicklaus and Love.

Afterward Jacklin said something about owing it all to his time on the American tour, but his countrymen will forgive him that. They will remember, instead, a scene earlier in the day when Nicklaus, ready to putt on the 6th green, heard a mighty roar for a Jacklin birdie putt at the 4th. Nicklaus looked up, grinned and slowly nodded his head. He got' the message. Things have changed in England. When the pressure is on, a dashing young "linksman" doesn't dissolve to jelly anymore. He turns into a prince.