Word: bartlette
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...Bartlett and his fellow caddies imbued with a missionary fervor, have gone a long way towards propagating the game. Another notable golfing afficionado was a British army captain named Joseph Cambell, who had his humble origins as a caddy in Glasgow. Cambell was commanding the British stockade in the Bahamas when he got a craving for the links. He set to work fashioning makeshift clubs out of bamboo saplings and used knots of the native lignum vitae tree to mold golf balls. Cambell laid out a course on the parade grounds below Nassau, and gold was born...
...looping involves more than mindless drudgery, although the nickname "mule train" persists in many caddy yards. During the U.S. Women's Open Bartlett paced off exact yardages before each round and rose every morning to watch P.J. Boatwright, the venerable executive director of the USGA, attend to pin placements. "Every time he found the right place his face would light up with a sadistic smile," Bartlett remembers...
...game whose aristocratic origins date back to the reign of King Charles I. Charles received the news of the Irish Rebellion while playing a round at Leith, but the legend of Hagen's verve and reckless gamesmanship has managed to bridge the years and has found its way to Bartlett. Although Hagen died in 1969, slumped in the corner of Rochester's ramshackle caddy pen sits a greybeard who Bartlett says "used to caddy for Hagen in his heyday...
...real partier," Bartlett says of Hagen. Although he has only a second-hand knowledge of Hagen's glory days, the anecdotes speak for themselves. After he won the British Open at Troon in 1928, he begged off entering the clubhouse for the victory presentation because the players had been forbidden to go inside during the tournament; instead, he invited the gallery over to the pub where he was staying...
...Bartlett adds with some pride that "Hagen was a terrific hustler. He used to gamble thousands and thousands of dollars on the golf course...