Word: golf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First-year golf coach Bob Donovan and his charges kicked off the season two days before the ECAC qualifying tournament on Monday in Portland, Maine, in the Toski Invitational tourney which serves as a showcase for New England talent...
...captain and reigning Norwegian Amateur champion, was low man for the Crimson with a 78, five strokes behind medalist Tom Day. Vik, who finished eighth in the European Amateur this summer at Graz, Austria, will jet to Andalusia next week for the World Amateur Championship held over the Penina golf course in Portugal. Golfers from 60 nations will participate...
...hope to enter the ECAC in midseason form. But besides serving as a tune-up, the Crimson's participation in the Toski Invitational for the first time is meant to pay homage to the Toski clan of Bob, Jack, Tom and Ben, who have been a driving force behind golf in New England. Bob Toski, who is the game's foremost teacher and whom Donovan calls "the pro's pro," won the Greater Hartford Open when he was a regular on the pro tour in the 1950s...
Those pleasures are quite extraordinary in range. Beyond conventional horse and auto sports, golf, tennis, hang-gliding and rafting down rivers, they include elaborate re-creations of Civil War battles; tractor "pulls," in which contestants vie in hauling 30,000-lb. loads over a 300-ft. course; "plant digs," organized by state forestry commissions and environmentalist groups, in which families are encouraged to rescue trees, shrubs and wild flowers from soon-to-be-bulldozed sites; hunting Indian arrowheads and searching for old bottles (two of Jimmy Carter's favorite decompression pastimes) or turtle eggs...
...exceed 600,000. Alligators have invaded populated areas, leading to worries that they may attack humans. "It's people, not alligators, that are becoming an endangered species in some Louisiana parishes," says a wildlife official. His fears seem well founded. Golfers at New Orleans Bayou Barriere Golf Club have become somewhat timid since club members found and killed a 5-ft. gator near the 14th fairway. A Metairie, La., family called off an afternoon swim when they found a four-footer in their backyard pool. In Alabama last month a 13-ft. gator glided...