A confidant of three commissioners, he played a major role in negotiations with the players’ union and in league expansion in 1976 to Seattle and Tampa. Then suddenly he was one stroke down and once again re?establishing his claim for the title of the finest player never to have won a major. – and it went to the Clippers, who pulled away in the second half to beat Sacramento and lock up No4. James Bunce tells Simon Austin of his grand ambitionsThe US team in training.