Word: fairways
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...Cruickshank's followers cut over to the tenth and fell in behind Farrell. And when Farrell came up to the sixteenth needing only two par holes to win, all the people who had been scattered over the club grounds formed into lanes on each side of the fairway. Farrell came to the eighteenth with a two stroke lead, purposely drove over the heads of the crowd into the tenth fairway, pitched his approach to the flag and sank his putt, winning $5,000. Cruickshank got $2,500, Sarazen...
Down a sunbaked Florida golf-fairway, John Davison Rockefeller, aged 88, last week propelled a golf-ball 175 yards. Up stepped Will Rogers, funnyman, with a discolored dime, and said: "Here, Mr. Rockefeller, take this as a little token of your wonderful drive. Be sure and don't spend it too fast...
...year-old club champion, the 14-year-old state champion or the 15-year-old Southern chaimpion. Not until 1923 when Jones Jr. was 21 and about to win his first major title, did Grandfather Jones send a telegram. But then he said: "Keep them in the fairway and make all the putts go down...
...Andrews, newsboys sold "Bawby's" picture framed beside that of Tom Morris Jr. One dismayed Scotsman growled, "Ye're nae a gowfer at a'-ye're juist a machine." Another said: ". . . the gr-reatest gowfer in the wur-rld." Carried on Scottish shoulders to his hotel (beside the 18th fairway), Gowfer Jones hastily sought privacy. The terrific strain had ended in an attack of nausea. When it had passed he said: "I'm too happy to talk. To be a champion at St. Andrews is quite too much...
...been jarred by a spectator's motion picture camera. However, Armour reached the tee of the last (457-yard) hole to find that he needed a birdie 3 to tie Cooper. Wood smote rubber-and Armour's ball traveled 275 yards down the middle of the fairway. Iron smote rubber-and Armour's ball made a 180-yard parabola to the green, 15 feet from the cup. For four minutes Armour studied his putt. Then, there was a tap, a roll and a clink. Armour had made 301. Next day, in the play...