Word: fairwayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smallest golfer in the crowd put all his 135 Ibs. behind one all-out swing. The ball screamed down the fairway, stopped 275 yards away. Ben Hogan was satisfied with his drive. That was the only shot in a tournament that he really enjoyed...
...Nelson, who would have won had he not been robbed by the rule book (it cost him a stroke when his caddy accidentally kicked his ball). His toughest competitor all winter, Ben Hogan, the little man with the deadly grin, had also looked like a winner, storming up the fairway to the last two holes. Then his putter went cold; he missed a two-footer on the last green. That finished...
Somebody in Britain had made skeptical sounds about low U.S. golf scores (like Byron Nelson's phenomenal 68.3 average last year). The scores were phony, said this Briton, because they were made on easy courses, with the ball teed up on the fairway. No U.S. golfer could say him nay,*but somebody in Britain had to pay for saying...
...During the war, when courses were in poor shape, most tournaments permitted golfers to improve bad fairway lies...
...headlines went wild. Actually, the Polish issue last week was not "near solution." Neither was it in a state of "crisis." Said a British diplomat in Washington: "We are now where we should have been two months ago. We are out of the bunker and back on the fairway. There is still an iron shot and at least one putt before we sink the ball...