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Article: Of cabbage soup and King Jack.(Sports)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1996
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - This is what it's come down to for Jack Nicklaus: cabbage soup. Billy Casper had his buffalo steaks, and Nicklaus has his cabbage soup. When you're 56 and trying to keep lean and mean enough to win golf tournaments, you'll submit to almost any dietary weirdness, even cabbage soup.
"I wouldn't want to be [playing] behind him," is all Tom Watson will say on the subject.
Ten years have passed since Jack Nicklaus walked off the 18th green at Augusta National, arm in arm with his son Jackie, and waited for Greg Norman to bogey the final hole so he could become the oldest Masters champion. For most golfers, that would be enough, more than ...