Word: fairway
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...York fashion-setters will have on the ancient and honorable game. Of course, long jeans will take the socks out of the sport and cover a multitude of shins as the pleasure-bent man tees off. But the hardest blow of all will be long pants going down the fairway...
...when this happened, prodigious crowds swarmed over St. Andrews day after day. People pushed each other into ponds and bunkers.* Stewards shouted and waved red flags. Three times it took more than five minutes by the clock on the tower of the Royal & Ancient Clubhouse to clear the 18th fairway for the final hole, and each of these times the mob had come over in response to the news that Jones was in danger. The first time was when Jones was playing big Cyril Tolley, last year's British amateur champion, reckless, huge-shouldered, one of the longest drivers...
...next time the 18th fairway was hard to clear was when Jones finished against Harrison R. ("Jimmy") Johnston, the U. S. amateur champion. Jones was four up at the 13th. After the 17th he was only one up and seemed to have forgotten how to play. He had to halve the 18th...
...Walker Cup players trying St. Andrews for the first time were amazed to find how primitive and ungroomed the Royal & Ancient course really is, with its public pathways worn by people crossing it on the way to the beach, its rough greens and sheep-cropped fairways, its gorse and hummocks and vague stretches of ground neither rough nor fairway...
...Indianapolis, one M. J. Abbott, golfing, tried for a birdie. When the ball landed on the fairway, a crow swooped down, snatched the ball in its beak, flew away. "It's a birdie," said Golfer Abbott's merry companions...