Word: duffer
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...time looking for the damn ball in the rough. It was infuriating." But Pedrick, a mechanical engineer by training, a tinkerer by inclination-and a better inventor than golfer-has now filed plans with the British Patent Office for a series of devices that could offer the suffering duffer new hope on the links...
...duffer who, despite the trick club, still managed to send off his shots with a spin, Pedrick dreamed up another gimmick: a golf ball with "wings." The wings, actually six tiny metal flaps, would be held tightly against the ball's outer surface by magnets implanted beneath them. But if the ball began spinning, the flaps would be flipped out by centrifugal force and act as an air brake, retarding the spin...
Golf's Man of the Year is that laugh-a-minute duffer who came closer to breaking pro Doug Sanders' skull than he ever came to breaking par. Spiro Agnew, honored at the Ail-American Collegiate Golf Dinner for his participation in charity tournaments, characterized himself as "the Harold Stassen of golf." Explained Agnew: "I don't win very often, but I'm always ready to tee off again...
...fences, and the modern game has a pragmatic maxim: "Singles hitters drive Chevrolets; home run hitters drive Cadillacs." In golf, whippy steel, aluminum and fiber glass golf-club shafts have replaced the wood of 35 years ago, and today's high-compression balls allow even a Sunday duffer to dream of belting one 300 yds. off the tee-something Bobby Jones never...
...SNEAD GOLF SHOW (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Sam starts an instructional series that includes a helpful round with an elderly duffer at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Premiere...