Word: backspin
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...next year, she entered the world of golfing polemics, refuting the iconoclastic thesis of two savants of the golf swing, Alister Cochran and John Stobbs. Leslie showed that the surface of the clubface does, in fact, impart more backspin on the ball depending on its roughness...
...yard 15th, Nicklaus got his eagle by cranking out a drive that split the wasp-waisted fairway and then hitting a 235-yard two-iron shot that landed fizzing and kicking with backspin 30 feet beyond the flagstick...
Kung, a minus 14 handicapper, was the only player to showcase a defense-minded style. Much like Bobby Riggs, Kung chopped, lobbed, and "out-Englished" his opponents with an expertly applied backspin...
...16th hole, for example, an alert cameraman caught Jack Nicklaus opening his club face on an approach shot. That, explained Commentator Byron Nelson, was for backspin. And sure enough, the ball hit beyond the pin and rolled back, back-whoops, too far. When he got to the par-five 18th hole, Nicklaus was four strokes behind, so he audaciously decided to go for an eagle. His second shot landed on an impossible rock perch at the top of a sheer drop down to the ocean. A forehanded ABC crewman was in the right place with a hand-held camera...
...Yale plays standard college squash," Barnaby said. "They work for power and are satisfied to hit the ball flat. We have been concentrating on technical drills and execution, hoping to polish our control. Our players work to slice the ball, giving it a backspin and making it 'go dead' or drop on rebound...