Word: golfe
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...until he died last week after playing a round of golf in Spain with three Spanish professionals, Bing Crosby had been one of the game of golf's greatest benefactors. For 30 years he hosted and sponsored the gala California golf tournament known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, which is affectionately referred to as "Bing's clambake...
...seems that Harry Lillis Crosby first became enamored of the game after he landed a role in the 1930 Paul Whiteman musical "The King of Jazz." During the filming, Crosby and some other musicians played a round at the Lakeside Golf Club in Los Angeles. Crosby became a life-long member of Lakeside and won. the club championship several times...
...time of World War II, Crosby and his perennial sidekick Bob Hope were barnstorming the country on golf exhibitions with professionals such as Byron Nelson and Harold McSpaden. "Lord" Byron, the leading money-winner of 1945, and "Childe" Harold were then known as "The Gold Dust Twins." Crosby teamed up with woman professional and former Olympian Mildred "Babe" Didrickson in a series of War Bond exhibitions on the Coast. By the end of the war, over $600 million worth of War Bonds had been sold through golf tournaments and exhibitions...
Crosby patterned his rhythmical golf swing after that of his boyhood hero, MacDonald Smith, MacDonald was the youngest of a passel of five golfing brothers who emigrated en famille from Carnoustie, Scotland...
Prior to the war, golf was still largely the sport of Scottish emigres and well-to-do American dilettantes, but in 1947 Crosby inaugurated his tournament and thanks to the enormous popularity of its host, the event was instrumental in fostering the post-war golf boom. In 1971 over 24 million viewers watched the Crosby on T.V., the most ever for a golf telecast up to that point...