An Unheralded Sports Editor Picks Jack Nicklaus to Win the 1962 U.S. Open

Gordon Stem, writing for the Macon News, not only picked Jack Nicklaus to win, he described how it would go down

OAKMONT, PA - June 13, 1962

As promised The Sports Time Traveler is following the 1962 U.S. Open which begins “tomorrow” at Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh. Sports editors around the country are handicapping the tournament. But one editor wrote as if he was also a different kind of Sports Time Traveler, one who could leap forward 5 days. Gordon S…