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HEATIN’

UP

In this Sunday, April 13, 1986,
file photo, Jack Nicklaus
watches his shot go for a bird-
ie on the 17th at the Masters
golf tournament in Augusta,
Ga. Curtis Strange says every
player who finished stayed in
the locker room to watch the
46-year-old Nicklaus win his
18th major.
Associated Press
Majors can

have impact

on others in

different ways

By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
Major champions today
create memories for to-
morrow.
Some of them, anyway.
Still to be determined is
whether the grit Patrick
Reed showed at Augusta
National — holding off Rory
McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and
Rickie Fowler in that order
— resonates with a junior
who is just getting into golf
or motivates one of Reed's
peers.
"It's such a nostalgic
game," McIlroy said last
summer. "People remem-
ber when they watched
Jack (Nicklaus) win a U.S.
Open or Tom Watson chip
in at Pebble Beach. What-
ever generation it is, that's Wade turns back the clock and
what they're going to re-
member and that's their 76ers in Game 2 Miami victory
fondest memory."
McIlroy was among five
major champions who
were asked about their
fondest memory of a ma- Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade, right, shoots with Philadelphia 76ers' T.J. McConnell, center, and Ersan Ilyasova, left, of Turkey, defend
jor (excluding those they during the first half in Game 2 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series, Monday, April 16, 2018, in Philadelphia.
won). Associated Press
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