Word: golf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mitchell - 24171-157-must each serve 30 months before they become eligible for parole. Both men are doing their time in minimum security prisons-unfenced facilities with no armed guards and no violent convicts. The two camps have acres of grassy lawns. Mitchell's borders a golf course and a river in which convicts can fish. Haldeman's sits at the edge of a blossom-filled valley devoted to the commercial production of flower seeds. Both prisons have outdoor playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from the end of the workday in midafternoon until prisoners choose...
...second shot into a steeply escaped bunker in front of the green and a semi-explosion shot left him 40 feet from the pin. Green bladed his second putt into the center of the cup to avoid a playoff and in so doing moved into the pantheon of golf's immortals...
Green's unorthodox style bespeaks his resolute individuality. Sir Walter Simpson in 1887 in his definitive The Art of Golf recognized the strengths of the unorthodox stylist: "Do I maintain, the reader may ask, that everyone ought to have the same style? By no means; on the contrary, for you or me to model ourselves on a champion is about as profitless as to copy out Hamlet in the hope of becoming Shakespeare...
...group of oil magnates seeking recreation during the Depression and hoping to create employment commissioned Perry Maxwell to design Southern Hills. It was soon recognized as the premier test of golf in the Southwest and perhaps the most rigorous eighteen as far as driving goes in the nation...
...only other players who broke 290 in 1958 were Julius Boros and Gary Player, then making his first impression on American golf. This year Player was once again in the thick of contention. He faltered on Sunday but still finished only seven strokes off of Green's pace...