INTRODUCTION From The Sports Time Traveler™
The early 1960s was the era of the Big Three in golf - Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.
Coming into the 1964 Masters, every Masters title of the decade so far had been won by one of the Big Three - Palmer (1960 and 1962), Player (1961) and Nicklaus (1963).
Of the first 17 majors in the 1960s, the Big…