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Orange CrushW
hen TomW
atson becamea major star▶ golf’s new master
Before Rickie Fowler made
orange his thing, Tom
Watson rocked the color
to great success during
the final round of the 1977
Masters. Watson, at age
27, defeated Jack Nicklaus,
37, by two shots to win the
first of two green jackets.
Later that year, he would
edge Nicklaus in the Open
Championship—the Duel in
the Sun at Turnberry—for
the third of his eight major-
championship victories.