Word: fairway
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...championship matches are far away; right now, the Crimson will settle for some decent playing weather and an opportunity to blast the ball down the fairway, let the chips fall where they...
...toss, stepped up to the ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
...could not play if pictures were snapped while he swung. As he prepared to hit his first competitive shot in a year an amateur movie camera began whirring on the clubhouse steps. Ben frowned, and a shout silenced the camera. Then Ben Hogan sent the ball screaming down the fairway...
...amateurs in last week's U.S.G.A. Public Links championship were the pick of a fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the more genteel aspects of what is sometimes regarded as a genteel game. In their zest for the title, some of last week's competitors just missed beating their opponents over the head with mashie niblicks...
Jimmy hooked his drive toward the rough, but the ball hit a spectator and caromed back onto the fairway. His next, a strong approach shot headed for the back-of-beyond, hit a second spectator and dropped on the edge of the green. Demaret took a par for the hole and gained another stroke on Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit...