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...born Harry Evans traces his connection with Life back to the 14th hole of a sectional golf tournament played at St. Augustine, Fla. in 1925. The man he was playing against hooked his shot, waved his club angrily. The next thing Mr. Evans knew he was lying on the fairway with a painful lump rapidly rising on his forehead. The club-waver was curly-haired Clair Maxwell. Life's president. A year later Mr. Evans quit his sportwriting job and was working for his assailant. He became Life's managing editor, is still its cinema critic...
Public golf courses are dangerous places. Etiquet is not observed as closely as at private clubs. There is a good deal of driving into the players ahead, club-throwing after bad shots, teeing-up-on-the-fairway, kicking the ball in the rough, cursing, gouging of divots. But even public links golfers know that automobiles should not drive across golf courses. One afternoon last week, when a car suddenly burst through some shrubbery and went careening across the Cherry Ridge links in Elyria, Ohio, scores of public linksmen, hurrying around to get through before dinner, grew righteously, furiously indignant...
...house faces the [Brookline] country club's 17th fairway. I was waiting for them to come up to that tee and when they did Francis told me he was two strokes up on Vardon and that Ray was far behind him. . . . Francis picked up another stroke on the 18th for a 72, Vardon took a 77 and Ray a 78. Ever since that day the 17th has been called 'The Vardon' for that was the hole that gave Francis his first championship...
...Apawamis Country Club (Rye, N. Y.) in 1916, Charles Sutter made the par fourth 11th hole in two by hitting both shots out of bounds. The first hit a tree, bounced back on the fairway; the second bounced in off a rock...
...four. After holding a lead of now one and now two strokes. Hagen dropped the fifteenth and sixteenth, where Alliss sank a 30-ft. putt, and they came to the seventeenth all even. Alliss thereupon sliced his drive to take a par four while Hagen drove straight down the fairway, approached well, quickly sank his putt. The last hole was halved. Hagen's total score: 423; Alliss...