Word: fairwayed
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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...
...After his drive hooked into a clump of bushes at Fresh Meadow and nestled against a fence, Nelson used the back of his putter with a left-handed swing, chipped the ball 100 ft. through shrubbery onto the fairway...
...holes, generally want to "do something" for their caddies. At this philanthropic game, none has done so soundly and sensibly by the caddies as Charles ("Chick") Evans Jr., the ex-caddy who won the 1916 U.S. Open and Amateur championships. Years ago Evans began cashing in on his fairway fame with a series of phonograph records called "Chick Evans' Golf Secrets," and devoting the proceeds to helping out deserving caddies. Since 1930, 55 bag-toters, chosen on their records as caddies and students, have received free tuition at Northwestern University on Chick Evans Scholarships. No. 56 is wiry...