Word: bogeying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something else as well. Behind his several masks and costumes lurks an excellent and greatly underrated writer. His primary problem is that almost nobody takes a book on sports seriously. The public, to be sure, has bought his books-Out of My League, Paper Lion and The Bogey Man have sold nearly 2,000,000 copies in both hard-cover and paperback-and the critics have generally been enthusiastic. Yet both readers and reviewers have inferentially relegated Plimpton to the special, segregated subcategory of journalism reserved for the sportswriter. And a sportswriter, even a very good sportswriter, is still...
...rolled dead two feet from the hole, and he had a birdie three. On the 13th, Stockton's second shot splashed into a pond; he took a one-stroke penalty, dropped another ball and hit a wedge to within a foot of the pin to avoid a double bogey...
...time they reached the 15th hole, Stockton was still five strokes ahead, and that, to all intents and purposes, was it. Dave had room to bogey three of the last four holes and putt out at the 18th a clear two-stroke winner. Cool and self-contained all week long, he was suddenly seized by the enormity of his achievement. Looking up at his pregnant wife Cathy waiting for him, he suddenly burst into tears. "She just waved and that was enough." he said. "I was gone. I told my caddie to bring me a towel...
Harvard's Cooch Owen and Penn's Tim Megear kept close to each other through-out their match at number four and were tied after 18 holes. It only took Megear one hole of sudden-death to beat Owen, with a bogey. Owen had disposed of his Columbia opponent on the 16th hole...
Owen was the only letterman to win his match as he beat Skip Palmer on the 19th hole. Two down with four to go. Owen won on the 16th and 18th holes before he sunk his putt for a bogey on the 19th. Palmer double bogeyed the hole...