Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hole golf match, a good player rarely makes more than 75 shots. In a three-out-of-five-set tennis match, a player may make as many as 5,000 shots. Consequently, in tennis, luck counts for comparatively little and the better player almost always wins. Before the All-England tennis championships started at Wimbledon last fortnight, experts knew who the best players were: redhaired, lanky Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. and Germany's handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm...
Though the Ryder Cup has invariably been won by the golf team playing on home ground, on the eve of the biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas...
When your golf club has a swatfest, father & son tournament or other unique contest with a handsome goblet as prize, the chances are that it has been instigated by the Professional Golfers' Association of America, commonly called the PGA. Founded in 1916 by several eastern professionals, PGA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote golf and thereby professional golfers, who are one of the most underpaid groups of crack athletes in the world. PGA conducts tournaments, offers free teaching in colleges, free advice to clubs, free architects to the Government or anyone else who wants...
...streamlined head for golf clubs...
...welcome the Japanese with Ambassador Hirosi Saito. With Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper they exchanged polite greetings. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council gave them a luncheon. Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a speech. At the Burning Tree, Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs they played golf earnestly and remarkably well. Convinced by members of the State Department that Franklin Roosevelt minded not at all their lack of formal morning clothes, they spent a smiling half hour with the President...