Word: fairwayed
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...Rama, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. For $3.75 on weekdays and $5.25 on weekends, a golfer can pretend that he is playing 18 holes on one of five courses (Oahu, Thunderbird, Pebble Beach, Firestone, the Dunes). The illusion of actual play is achieved by projecting an image of the selected fairway on a 9-ft. by 9-ft. screen inside a large booth. When the player drives his ball against this screen, a computer measures its speed and direction, makes adjustments for hooks or slices, and controls the movement of a circular light that mimics the trajectory of the ball...
...favorite gathering place for the young people is the knoll overlooking the 16th hole. The 16th is a 190-yard par three with a long pond as its fairway. Middle-aged and elderly people are among the crowd, but no one seems to notice. "It is almost as if they are not there," a high school girl said...
Fencing or chess may be fit sports for adversaries, but certainly not golf. Who wants to stride down a fairway next to someone with whom one is arguing about Viet Nam? Neither Bill Rogers nor Bill Fulbright. Close friends and frequent golf partners until 1969, they drifted apart when Rogers was named Secretary of State. The two continued to play once in a while, but the antiwar chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee seemed less intent on the game than on the debate. For his part, Rogers refused more and more often to testify before Fulbright's committee...
...inevitably the man who suffered most by comparison with Camelot is now benefiting. Out of the long grass adjoining Camelot a golf ball soars into the sun. Five years ago, who would have believed it? Ike Eisenhower is out of the rough and decently back on history's fairway...
...golfer knows, a bad lie is not a terrible whopper told at the 19th hole. On a course, it means the bad positioning of a ball-jammed behind a tree in the rough, stuck in a divot on the fairway, or confronted with spike marks on the green. Generally, a golfer must play his ball where it lies or take a penalty of added strokes if he chooses to move it. Among weekend golfers, the temptation is often strong to improve a lie surreptitiously, especially on the greens, where a player is permitted to lift the ball and wipe...