Word: golfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even a beginner compiling a golf score will realize that the scoring of the above was no easy task. It was a rare hole indeed when Fitzgibbons played less than three balls. He is more in his element tinkering with the loops and gyrations that must be meshing perfectly for him to strike the ball "pure" than tallying accurate scores...
While preparing to hit his fourth drive on the fourth tee: "If I don't hook this one I'm going to be ragged. That's one of the things I hate about golf--when you think you're doing something with your hands, and you're doing something else." Later on, a stray putt elicited: "What a rude putt. I just can't get the line right today...
There are few mortals past or present as knowledgeable about the golf swing as Fitzgibbons. "I've put so much time into trying to find a perfect swing," he says. "I've tried to isolate every single move--to break the golf swing into 400 parts and make each perfect." Nor has he arrived at the end of his search for the flawless swing. In fact, despite taking some lessons from the renowned teaching pro Claude Harmon, he feels his swing has lost some of its youthful fluidity...
...believes there are two fundamental components to the sound golf swing. The first is the "lateral hip slide," which results in "a nicely grooved swing plane." The second crucial ingredient is "bowing," which refers to the locked position of the wrists at impact. He says, "bowing was Hogan's great secret. He called it supination. Nicklaus does it well, so do Trevino and Irwin. Harmon's a great proponent of bowing...
...polo field and race track date from the days when The Country Club had no golf course but served as a haven for New England's wealthy families, "free from the annoyance of horse railroads...