Word: fairwayed
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...them was his friend the Prince of Wales who, wearing a blue beret and the same kind of clothes, looked so much like Jurado that it was hard to tell them apart. Jurado made his big mistake when he sent his brassie shot into the crowd on the tenth fairway and took a five. At the 14th, playing into a stiff wind, he was on in three and down in three putts for a six. He played the next two holes in par and still had a comfortable margin-one over par to tie-when he teed up his ball...
...safe way to play the 17th was to use an iron from the tee and play between two bends of the brook that crossed the fairway. Jurado played safe but he was nervous; his topped ball landed on a tiny island in the first bend of the brook, his third was trapped, and he took a six for the hole. On the long 18th he still had a chance to tie, if his second was on the green, or if he played his second short, got a good chip shot and sank his first putt. Jurado was cautious again...
...that it tends to accentuate the slice; yet the 'dub' who could not get the maximum result from the old ball, can from the new. The new ball was designed to bring back the use of wooden clubs and long irons on the fairway-the use of clubs for which the course was designed. It does just that." Delicate is the position of the manufacturers in this ball controversy. When the U. S. G. A. persuaded them to cease making the old model, it cost some $500,000 to install new molds. A reversal would mean another heavy...
Said Life's open letter: ". . . For a month or two now the toilers of the fairway have been knocking your new ball around. ... They are thwacking it mightily into the toughest gale, watching it hover and dip and rise again, often to soar away like a homing bird into the trees to some unplayable nest. They are putting it diligently into the cup, diligently and boldly-boy, she's in!-oop-a curl and a flip and out pops Big Boy for another try. ... It was a disappointment in May; it will be hated in June...
John Davison Rockefeller stamped the golf-course fairway at Ormond Beach, Fla. and cried: "We must denounce that thing, and by that I mean that thing over in Russia...