Word: compston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Husky, snub-nosed, 19, she started to play golf seven years ago, got instruction from her father and Edward VIII's favorite professional, Archie Compston. Putting - the department of golf in which women are most noticeably inferior to men - is Pam's strong point. She practices it two hours daily, does it better than any other girl golfer in the world...
...from Tuckahoe, N.Y., arrived home and told the newspapers how she played golf with the Prince of Wales, beat him (TIME, Aug. 14). She "just happened" to be playing the same courses he was playing, several days in a row. One day he asked his private professional, towering Archie Compston, to arrange a match. Mrs. Alastair Mackintosh made it a foursome and they played three rounds on as many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with an 80 to his 83. He gave her a box of balls...
...shirt buttoned up, beat Fred Robson, seven up. He appalled Robson on the fourth hole by driving his ball into a refreshment stand, playing a niblick shot off the floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute, who placed fourth in the Open two years ago; he gave the youngest British player, 25-year-old Bert Hodson, the worst beating of all, eight up and six to play. The U. S. team needed one more match...