Word: golf
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...golf tee for the ecology minded is offered by Spectrum Marketing Co. of London, Ontario. It is made of plastic and disintegrates within 90 days after being exposed to the elements. Spectrum says the plastic even contains a fertilizer that is released as the tee dissolves. An advanced model contains grass seed to help restore tee areas. --The Wall Street Journal...
...biodegradable tee is only the capstone to a steady technological advance that has revolutionized golf equipment since 1603, when William Mayne, a bowmaker by trade, became official clubmaker to James I of England...
...dimpled, true-flying, rubber-centered golf ball of today, though, is a recent phenomenon. For the over 400 years since James I of England took up the game, skilled individual manufacturers made an oval or oblate golf ball known as the feathery, which required painstaking labor...
...more than any other made frugal cars fashionable in the U.S. In what is being called a "second generation" of passenger-car diesels, VW claims to have solved most of the diesel's problems of weight and sluggishness. VW's first diesel, sold in Europe in the Golf model, accelerates to 50 m.p.h. in 11.5 sec., v. 10.5 sec. for the comparable gasoline-powered version (which is known in the U.S. as the Rabbit), and has a top speed of 87 m.p.h. Price: $4,000. VW plans to bring out a diesel Rabbit...
Fifty-six-year-old Australian pro Kel Nagle took a one-stroke lead in an international golf tournament at Melbourne yesterday. Nagle, who won the World Seniors in 1971, reached the peak of his career in 1960 when he won the centenary British Open at St. Andrews, staving off the closing charge of a young Arnold Palmer...