Word: fairwayed
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...player tees off and smacks the ball at an illuminated picture of a fairway, 17 feet away. Elapsed time between the sound of club on ball and the ball's impact on screen enables the computer to calculate length of drive and probable roll within five yards. One of a bank of 30 lights behind screen is activated by ball and shows on screen as ball actually landing on fairway. Player presses a button and another picture appears taken from approximate position of ball. Player squints at the flag, picks his club, and swings again. On reaching the green...
...took Palmer to calm everyone down. On the first tee next morning, he wrapped the unhappy Nicklaus in a bear hug. "Hi there, ole buddy!" grinned Palmer, and the two marched down the fairway arm in arm. Able to concentrate again, Nicklaus regained his steady brilliance, was able to open a two-stroke lead by the end of the first nine. Palmer managed to pull even on the twelfth hole, but then on the 13th he punched a two iron smack into a tree and wound up with a double bogey that ended all chances...
Though he has been at the game on and off and off and off since he was 18, Pierre Salinger, 38, has never cottoned to drivers much. But occasionally he lucks one down the fairway and then it's try, try again. Trying in a match with the President, he followed his clubhouse shot with a mulligan that zoomed 20 yards directly into the rough, to the acute embarrassment of the caddie, his son Mark, 14. Pierre, however, remained plucky, reported vaguely at match's end that it ended...
...fairways were pinched in to only 30 yds. wide in spots. All but six holes were "blind"-meaning that golfers could not even see the greens on approach shots. And the greens themselves were small, slick and snaky. Winds rising to 45 m.p.h. raked the fairways, turned the greens hard and slick. At times, the gusts seemed to come from every direction, spattering sand in players' faces, carrying well-stroked shots into the rough. On the 14th fairway, Tony Lema tossed a handful of grass into the air, stared stupefied as the grass soared straight upward. Of 401 rounds...
...Last week, in the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions. Jack Nicklaus-doggone him anyway-got richer still. Ah, but the way he did it. On opening day at the 7,073-yd. Desert Inn Country Club course, his second tee shot strayed from the fairway and conked a spectator on the head. That rattled the spectator. Not Jack. He paused briefly to comfort the injured bystander, drilled an iron to the green and neatly two-putted for a birdie four. He then birdied five of the next twelve holes, bogeyed only once and clomped up to the 15th...