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One up. Billy Casper won the $35,000 first prize after a dramatic one-hole playoff with Al Geiberger in the Carling World Gold Championship at Board o(...)
One up. Billy Casper won the $35,000 first prize after a dramatic one-hole playoff with Al Geiberger in the Carling World Gold Championship at Board o(...)

One up. Billy Casper won the $35,000 first prize after a dramatic one-hole playoff with Al Geiberger in the Carling World Gold Championship at Board o(...)

Date9/4/1967
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  • One up. Billy Casper won the $35,000 first prize after a dramatic one-hole playoff with Al Geiberger in the Carling World Gold Championship at Board o(...)
  • One up. Billy Casper won the $35,000 first prize after a dramatic one-hole playoff with Al Geiberger in the Carling World Gold Championship at Board of Trade yesterday, but 116-pound Chi Chi Rodriguez stole the show for comedy. Puerto Rican Rodriguez, who measures 5 feet, 6 inches, summoned his 6-foot-5-ins. 155-pound caddy, Ian Williams, to carry him across the Humber River (above) so he could play a shot from the wrong bank on the 15th hole. It worked. Chi Chi had a birdie 3.
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Original Toronto Star caption: One up. Billy Casper won the $35,000 first prize after a dramatic one-hole playoff with Al Geiberger in the Carling World Gold Championship at Board of Trade yesterday, but 116-pound Chi Chi Rodriguez stole the show for comedy. Puerto Rican Rodriguez, who measures 5 feet, 6 inches, summoned his 6-foot-5-ins. 155-pound caddy, Ian Williams, to carry him across the Humber River (above) so he could play a shot from the wrong bank on the 15th hole. It worked. Chi Chi had a birdie 3.
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