Making a Splash

It had been a long dry spell, nearly three years without a tournament victory, for Golfer Jerry Pate. So when the drought was finally broken with a win in the Danny Thomas-Memphis Classic, Pate made up for it, striding right off the 18th green and diving into a lake in celebration. Pate, who won the U.S. Open in his rookie year (1976), had another good reason for taking the plunge: the victory made him, at 27, the youngest golfer ever to earn more than $1 million in tournament purses. "I hadn't won in so long, I wanted to make sure this one soaked in," said Pate. "I just wanted to be sure to remind myself how much fun winning is." Now golfers, who have long admired Pate's classic swing, can contemplate his equally stylish diving form.

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