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Last month, the 26th Walker Cup Match was held at the oldest 18-hole course in America--the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southhampton, Long Island. The match began to the skree of a bagpipe regiment marching down the first fairway playing "Scotland the Brave" and ended with the American team continuing its traditional dominance of the competition by defeating the British contingent...
Both players drove into the middle of the hogsback fairway of Shinnecock's majestic final hole. Hutcheon, though, flew the green badly with his second and was staring at the prospect of a bogey. Faced with a chip that required the touch of a Swiss watchmaker, Hutcheon cooly pitched out of the cloying rough and watched his ball run over 70 feet of green and cascade into the cup. Hutcheon's victory gave the British team its final point of the competition...
...design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...
Green could thus afford to bogey the 18th hole and still come away with the $45,000 prize for first place. His drive skipped through the bend in the fairway leading uphill to the 18th green and into the rough. He slapped his second shot into a steeply escaped bunker in front of the green and a semi-explosion shot left him 40 feet from the pin. Green bladed his second putt into the center of the cup to avoid a playoff and in so doing moved into the pantheon of golf's immortals...
...seemed that Graham had found his Waterloo on the 17th, a short but heavily trapped par-four, when his drive hooked into a chute of trees at the crook of the dogleg on the left side of the fairway. He seemed destined for a certain bogey but instead hit a low, zinging iron that seemed to change direction in mid-flight. The ball skirted the bunker on the left side of the green and kicked to within six feet of the pin. Graham needed to hole out to drawn even with Green but his tentative putt was never on line...