Word: duffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...oddest Masters in years. Complaining that the grass on Augusta's fairways was too high. Player shot a first-round 75 and never got back into contention. Palmer had all kinds of trouble with his putter and the par-five 13th hole. And Nicklaus? Playing like any duffer, he staggered through a second-round 79, missed the 36-hole cut, and joined the spectators-staying around the last two days only to perform the formality of helping the new champion into his winner's blazer...
...shrewdest duffer in Buckinghamshire sized up the competition and decided: don't get licked-join him. So Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 50, who plays golf with a handicap of 18, arranged for Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, 42, to be on his side against two of 'Arold's customary golfing partners, a pair of businessmen. That was a neat stroke, since Lee, in England on an eight-day visit, handles the clubs better than almost any Prime Minister in the world. But after a half-hour's play...
...when the ball struck Walsh, said the judge, he was sitting in a golf cart 20 ft. to Sellers' rear - a place of supposedly perfect safety. As a result, Walsh cannot be said to have "voluntarily assumed the risk" of being partly blinded. Ruled the judge: Duffer-Defendant Sellers must stand trial...