Word: baltusrol
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...After a nearly disastrous second round of 80, blonde golf pro Mickey Wright, 26, fired rounds of 69 and 72 at Baltusrol in Springfield, N.J., ran up a five-over-par 293, won her third woman's national open title in four years...
...sudden, the crowd remembered that Mayer was the young man who had the Open in his hands in 1954 at Baltusrol, then threw it away and finished third, behind Furgol and Littler. "He never wins anything but money," said a spectator, recalling all the times the handsome blond had finished high up and failed to win. Chances seemed good that he would blow it again. This week in the play-off it was Middlecoff who came apart. He splashed shots all over the course. Remarkably calm in the oppressive heat, Mayer played steady, close-to-par golf. While Middlecoff made...
...couple of days the toughest competitor in the National Open championship at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club seemed to be the course itself: its dipped and rolling greens, its narrow dogleg fairways, its devilish rough. Patient and unforgiving, it took on the nation's best golfers...
Anyone at Baltusrol could have told Ed what was wrong with his game. But it was 25 years too late to be helpful. As a kid on a Utica, N.Y. playground, he had broken his left arm. It never mended properly. Now it was permanently crooked and withered. To balance his swing, Furgol had learned to keep his right arm bent. Even so, he was outhitting some of the best at Baltusrol. And he was playing steady, accurate golf. Not until the 18th hole of the last round was he in real trouble. Then he hooked his drive deep into...
...catch him. No one else was close. But Littler needed a birdie 4 on the 18th for a tie. He missed an eight-foot putt, and Ed Furgol was the new champion. For sad Sam Snead it was small consolation to remember that before the tournament he had judged Baltusrol correctly. The winner, he had said, would card 284-just four over...