Word: dogleg
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HOLE 5: 450 yds., par four (average score: 4.32). This dogleg can be a horrible hole. It's the kind where you like to make your par and go on about your business. On the drive, you've got to skirt the left-hand traps if you're going to get home in two shots. By hugging the left you can cut at least 25 yds. off your second shot, but it's a dangerous business because of trees on the left, and if you have a hook, forget it. Even with a well-placed drive...
That left the 17th, a 441-yard par 4. It was a treacherous hole. The tee was set back in a funnel of trees overlooking a narrow creek. About 200 yards out, the hole began a deceptively sharp 75-degree dogleg right toward a 2800-square-foot green. There was deep rough and a line of thick trees on both sides of the fairway, and in front of the green there was a gaping pond that had already served as an unwelcome commode for the balls and dreams of more than a few players in the Pleasant Valley field...
...crucial factor tomorrow may well be the tricky Schuylkill River course, which features a natural dogleg. The stake boats are staggered, forcing one of the crews to start behind both of the others, thereby creating a subtle psychological disadvantage. Additionally, the lane system is deceptive...
...that round, Smallnick kept making incredibly lucky shots, but none was so amazing as a three-iron that he hit on the tenth hole. After hooking his drive on the 390-yard dogleg to the left. Smallnick could not even see the green for the trees. The smart Engineer then devised a plan which would propel his ball on a flight pattern like that of a boomerang. He would hook the ball around the trees...
James Campen will be at number one for Harvard; other members of the line-up are Pin McGuinn, Bogey Buchanan, Midiron Millis, Hook Hawkins, Bunker Bergman, and Dogleg Tague...