Word: fairwayed
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Standing on the fifth fairway of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Course, playing his last round in the Augusta Masters' Tournament, Golfer Gene Sarazen last week made the greatest shot of his career. Hit with a spoon, from a difficult downhill lie, his ball flew smoothly to a green 220 yd. away. It rolled slowly toward the hole. It dropped...
...crowd of 300 last week set out to watch Olin Dutra, U. S. Open Golf Champion, play his last round in the $12,500 Miami Biltmore Open tournament. Approaching the 17th green, Dutra and his gallery started across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made a birdie...
Mounting the first tee with quaking kness this afternoon, Mayor Richard M. Russell '14 will attempt to propel the white pellet far down the fairway, as the City of Cambridge formally opens its first venture into the ancient and honorable game of gowf...
Across the first fairway at St. Andrews runs Swilken Burn, the brook which has cooled the heels and heated the tempers of more expert golfers than any other in the world. Into Swilken Burn last week Craig Wood played his second shot of the playoff, a shot which, more than any other, helped decide the championship. Rather than waste a stroke, he took off his shoes and stockings, waded into the water with his niblick and played the ball. It landed near the edge of the green but Wood took three to hole out. Still rattled, he had another...
...Philadelphia: the North & South Open championship; with a record score of 277; at Pinehurst. Long famed for his skill at "trick" shots, Kirkwood two months ago stopped playing in theatres, so improved his game that in four rounds at Pinehurst not one of his drives landed off the fairway...