Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decide whether or not to really red-neck it up and bring a sheet that says 'North Augusta, S.C. loves the Red Sox'," Sam said. "If I have time, I might make...
Died. John Shaw Billings, 77, former managing editor of TIME (1933-36), first managing editor of LIFE (1936-44) and later editorial director of all Time Inc. magazines; of kidney failure and pneumonia; in Augusta, Ga. (see THE PRESS...
...never thought of it being my fifth Masters title-not until it was over and I was slipping on the green coat," declared Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 35, who collected $40,000 in prize money and one more winner's jacket at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. Others were more acutely aware of Nicklaus' achievement. "I can't say how I feel," said an anguished Tom Weiskopf, who lost the lead and eventually finished second (for the fourth time), in a tie with Johnny Miller. "How do you describe pain?" For Nicklaus, the tournament's most...
...conclusion of Sam Snead, who has won the Masters three times (1949, '52, '54), and of Bill Inglish, tournament statistician. After studying the 1,292 individual rounds and more than 95,000 shots played at the Masters in the past five years, Inglish found that Augusta's six most difficult tests are not where they are supposed to be. For example, the long par fives, including holes 13 and 15, play under par more frequently than any other holes. And Augusta's two closing holes, both notoriously troublesome par fours, have not ruined as many scores...
HOLE 10: 485 yds., par four (average score: 4.34). This is one of the holes that make Augusta National a long-driver's course. You've got to flirt with the trees on the left, but gently. Too much left and you're in the woods. The ideal tee shot is a low, running draw that goes slightly left of center in order to catch a steep slope tilting toward the green, leaving you a two-or three-iron home. If you fade your drive to the right, you've got an impossible downhill-sidehill shot...