Word: golfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Florida and miniature golf go together like beer and pretzels. Of course, beer and Florida are not exactly antithetical in vacation philosophy either...
Nothing can be more relaxing, or frustrating, than a round of miniature golf after a hard day of lolling-around on tiny quartz particles...
...super lightweight, super strong materials are here. Made of plastics reinforced by extremely thin strands of carbon, they are already being used in everything from aircraft parts to golf clubs and tennis racquets. Industry planners also have their eyes on hundreds of other products that could benefit from the versatile materials. But now warning flags have been raised about a troublesome effect of the fibers in the superplastics. Federal officials are so concerned that they have quietly ordered a high-level inter-agency study to decide how to reduce the potential hazard...
...Winter golf also raises the dilemma of how the caddie is best to convey one's clubs. The most satisfactory solution to my mind would be to adopt the method illustrated by the caddies at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, Hong Kong. By dangling both bags on a bamboo pole across his shoulders, the caddie could avoid setting the bags down in the snow for each club selection without undue physical strain...
...bamboo poles, biodegradable tees, and ammonium chloride balls allow the winter golfer to frolic in the snow in relative comfort. Such devices, of course, might alarm golfing traditionalists. Died in the wool golfers would be likely to concur with the judgment of "Firey," the legendary Musselburgh caddie, who when the first golf bag was introduced in Scotland in 1888 remarked that it was "nae gowf...