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Duane Lietzke’s life revolves around golf While Duane was a pretty good player in local events, he never had the game, he says, or the inclination to try the big tour.
“I figured if I couldn’t beat my 15-year-old brother, I couldn’t beat a lot of other people,” he said. Duane is lefthanded, but learned to play golf from the right side because there weren’t many lefthanded clubs available in the 1940s and 1950s. He is in good company. Among the lefties who played golf righthanded were Ben Hogan, Johnny Miller, Curtis Strange and Bobby Nichols. So how did brother Bruce get his nickname “Leaky?” “It was in college and it started when somebody couldn’t pronounce his name,” Duane said. “Everybody thinks — and he let’s them think that — that it came from fading the ball. His roommate in college was Phil Rodgers. And he liked for everyone to have nicknames and so he called him Leaky.” I’m one of those who have thought all these years that the nickname Leaky came from Bruce’s power fade. You learn something new every day. Address correspondence to Clair Goodwin at sports@joplinglobe.com. 
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