Word: fairwayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heeled pumps. They did not recognize Francis Ouimet, Chick Evans, Johnny Goodman or five other onetime champions who teed off in the 44th annual U. S. Amateur golf tournament. They powdered their noses while Defending Champion Bud Ward, generally considered the best amateur in the U. S., split the fairway with his drive. The golfer they had gone to see was Crooner Bing Crosby, whose habitual air of mild surprise never fitted him better than when he found himself among 150 topnotchers who had qualified for the national championship...
WODEHOUSE ON GOLF - P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Author Wodehouse, captured by the Germans, was reported still at Le Touquet. In this collection of reprints, some dating from 1910, Wodehouse's bland, bumbling golfers hook, slice and burble their way through 844 pages of fairway, rough and green...
...months ago, Houston-born James Newton Demaret, an apple-cheeked, happy-go-lucky 200-pounder, was just another golf pro named Jimmy. Like most professional golfers, he was born on the wrong side of the fairway, worked as caddy, caddy master and assistant pro before getting a job as head pro at Houston's Bras-Burn Country Club...