Word: doglegs
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...even longer than it had on Saturday. The wind also made the course’s fairways play narrower, which, combined with the hard, fast greens, put a premium on the precision of longer shots. The Crimson did, however, deal well with the difficult 10th hole—a dogleg-right with tall trees constricting the fairway 70 yards from a severely undulating green—that plagued it in years past. Of Harvard’s five golfers competing, Hazlett and junior Jenny Brine, who competed as an individual, did not play last week, underscoring the depth...
...Thailand's oldest course, a mere 60-foot putt from the train station. World-class greens at Lakeview and Springfield lie minutes down the road. If you prefer to fly, Phuket's Blue Canyon Country Club, golforient.com/phuket/blue.htm, is a half-hour dogleg from Bangkok. Out of bounds specialists should try the 557-yard par 5 number 10 at the Phuket Country Club, phuketcountryclub.com, where an errant 240-yard slice over water might reach the green in one. North of Phuket, the final hole at the Thai Muang Beach Golf Course has something of a water hazard?the Andaman...
...Updike proves his durability by turning out yet another splendid collection of elegant short stories about -- no, no, stay with him -- Wasp geezers who golf. Now and then, unblocked metaphors rise up shrieking: one duffer is resigned "to a golfing mediocrity that would poke its way down the sloping dogleg of decrepitude to the level green of death." Fore? Sure, but Lord, how that senior citizen can write...
...painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged in a dogleg in the shaft, 22 ft. beneath the surface...
Once again the dogleg first hole extracted a costly double bogey. Dales needed six shots when he bunkered his drive. Fitzgibbons was out of it when his tee shot made a beeline for south of the Rio Grande...