Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stolid, stoop-shouldered, 26-year-old Ralph Guldahl: the U. S. Open golf championship; defeating 164 of the country's top-notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke...
...weeks sporting England has been worried over the drought that frizzled the British Isles this spring. It threatened to spoil the ancient St. Andrews golf course for Britain's No. 1 international sporting event of the year (see below). More distressing, it threatened to parch the turf at ancient Epsom Downs for the nation's No. 1 fiesta, the Derby. With loving care the grass of the irregular horseshoe course was watered every day for ten dry weeks. Then, on the eve of the race, a torrent fell...
...first time since competition was inaugurated in 1922, a British team defeated a U. S. team (7-10-4) in the Walker Cup golf matches, played at famed St. Andrews last week. In so doing, they dominated a contest which was notable from start to finish for its incorrigible screwiness...
National Open (Sat. 3:30 p.m.. 6:45 p.m., 8 p.m., CBS). Last day of play in the No. 1 U. S. Golf tournament...
...pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance and out of the tournament, beaten by his teammate Charley Kocsis-who was in turn defeated by the homebred Stevenson later in the day. Lone U. S. survivor of the storm was Charley Yates. Playing the most extraordinary golf of the tournament, nonchalant and grinning Yates, who chattered with the galleries between his shots and played the pitch-&-run like a native, proceeded to eliminate: 1) two-time Champion Cyril Tolley in the quarter-finals (during which he made the most sensational shot of the week, an eagle...