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Skip Kistner, who played in the number one position, described the Andover Country Club as, "very wet and soggy. The fairway on the first hole, for instance, had so much water that I lost my ball in it and had to take a penalty shot. The greens were lightning quick or very slow. You just had to guess on them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Laxmen, Golfers Drop Wet Contests to Brown, Andover | 4/24/1969 | See Source »

...other Negro caddies used to scrape up a few clubs and sneak onto the course at dawn or even late at night." If nothing else, adds George Thorpe, 26, a second-year pro from Roxboro, N.C., "playing by moonlight sure teaches you how to keep the ball on the fairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Blacks on the Greens | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Playing in a stiff, biting wind at Tufts' Sagamore Springs course, the Crimson outclassed both opponents with consistent fairway shooting. But even the Crimson could not handle the grassless greens which Bruce LoPucki, Harvards number two man, described as cow pastures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Easily Defeat Amherst, Tufts in Meet | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...catalogue calls the course Network Television: The Facts of Life (Theater Arts XL 198A), but its professor, William Dozier, calls it The Jungle. This appraisal, he tells his class, is "not a pessimistic view but a realistic one. It is a jungle. Compared with television, Khe Sanh is the fairway of the Bel Air Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Industry: Only You, Bill Dozier | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...TREVINO, 28, 5 ft. 10 in., 180 Ibs., entered the U.S. Marines as a fairway hacker and emerged as a polished player-after a tour of duty on Okinawa, where "we had 'greens' covered with sand an inch or two deep." Trevino was a teaching pro in El Paso until last year, when he entered the U.S. Open at his wife's insistence, wound up fifth and won $6,000. Committed now to the tour ("You don't have to put up with the little old ladies here"), Lee skips rope and does situps, is often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: More Than a Game | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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