Word: borland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gentlemen. Deepdale's President M. Borland Doyle, a Manhattan advertising executive, who even in his best days never shot better than 94, began to wonder about such uncommonly fine scores handed in by such high-handicap players. He checked the entry list and discovered that Winner Vitali belonged to no recognized club where his handicap could be checked. He tried to hold up payment of the winners' prize money, but was overruled by his tournament committee. No golfing gentlemen, they argued,t would participate in a fraud...
...second owner of the Bishop's Palace was no more palatable to the Cambridge citizenry than the first. John Borland, a shady Tory merchant, was finally kicked out of town in 1775. General Israel Putnam and the Rebel Army then took over the mansion as their headquarters, and the Apthorp house remained a military establishment during the Revolution...