Word: amateurs
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DIED. Clifford Roberts, 84, co-founder and president of the Augusta National Golf Club and for 43 years chairman of its prestigious Masters Tournaments; by his own hand (gunshot); in Augusta, Ga. A New York City investment banker and ardent amateur golfer, Roberts teamed up with Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones to help launch the latter's "ideal" golf club in 1930. While its Masters Tournaments became well-attended sports classics, the austere, irascible Roberts kept Augusta National an exclusive golfing sanctuary for its 200-plus members. Among them...
DiNicola made the squad and found himself among a fraternity of seasoned amateur fighters, one of whom was Leon Spinks. Spinks won a gold medal as a light heavyweight at the Montreal Olympics and has since become a professional heavyweight...
...year-old Shavers did not throw his first competitive punch until he was 23, when he came off the General Motors assembly line to win the National Amateur title...
Even under normal conditions, the Yale Golf Club is one of the more demanding tests of golf in the country. It was designed by Charles Blair MacDonald, who won the first United States Amateur Championship in 1895. After learning to alay golf while attending St. Andrews University in Scotland, MacDonald returned to America and became a life-long proselytizer of the game...
Miller, the low amateur in this year's U.S. Open, defeated England's Peter McEvoy two up. Fought and Heafner, the son of former touring pro Clayton Heafner, both won their matches four and three. Simpson, who won back-to-back NCAA golf crowns while playing for USC, closed out former Scottish Amateur Champion Gordon Murray seven...