Word: duffers
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Just fight and die, you duffer...
Fate whacks at Wodehouse characters like a duffer with a No. 7 iron. There is the problem of Agnes Flack, when a Pekingese picks up her ball on the 18th green and carries it into the clubhouse-should she blast out with a niblick? And there is the predicament of Bingo Little, when his child's nurse, a motherly woman, trails him to an assignation to give him his woolly muffler...
They were grim days, but for Commissioner Allen full of exhilarating experiences. He recalls some of them. Harry Hopkins made him the District of Columbia's Relief Administrator. George played golf with Harry, who was a hopeless duffer, and spotted Hopkins two strokes a hole "for an additional million dollars for District relief projects." George Allen got his million, kindness of U.S. taxpayers...
...last hole of the tourney, he flubbed a shot from a bunker-just like a Sunday duffer. But on the next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...
...sand wedge is the club most novices neglect. Even when a duffer does buy one, he usually gets the wrong kind. He should choose one with a wide flange on the sole of the club. It makes one of golf's toughest shots (coming out of traps and bunkers) easy. It also helps make pitch shots simple...