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Watson's miracle slice shot leads to Open title

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, June 18, 2001

June 20, 1982 Having finished his round, Jack Nicklaus watches on television as Tom Watson, whom he's tied for the lead with, hits his two-iron tee shot into the heavy greenside rough on the par-three 17th hole of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. "I knew I had no worse than a tie," Nicklaus says. "There was no way in the world he could save par there so I figured he'd have to birdie 18 just to get into a playoff." Watson is thinking differently as surveys the challenge, a cut-shot wedge out of ...

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