Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weren't here when the war ended. You were on vacation -- in Bermuda or Florida or New York or Ohio. And you were watching television that night, never really expecting anything. Or you heard about it when the sun brought you a newspaper the next morning...
...fishermen, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea may be just another fish story. Not to Robert Clarke, 58, a civil engineer for whom a pleasant afternoon of trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young...
...test lived up to his name on 20 lb.; the 10-lb. bonefish that rolled belly up on 20 lb. became a raging demon on 6-lb. or better still, 4-lb. test, ripping off line so fast that it sounded like a sheet tearing. Says Pete Perinchief of Bermuda's top-rated Anglers Club, which hosts an annual tournament limited to 30 lb. and under: "If a guy down here says he's using anything heavier than 30, we ask him if he's turning commercial-going out for meat, ya' know...
Since then, a few of the MacKenzie-designed holes have been remodeled to make them tougher for the 80 or so top pros and amateurs who compete each year, by invitation only, in the Masters. But the course remains essentially a "members' course,"-6,980 yds. of wide Bermuda-grass fairways and huge, rolling greens, flanked by towering pines and largely free of man-made hazards. "We don't have to spend money building bunkers or maintaining them," explains Clifford Roberts, 74, the austere, bespectacled New York investment banker who, as Jones's deputy, rules both Augusta...
CORALIE POWELL Somerset, Bermuda...