Word: golfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watson stood in the center of the Bosky Amphitheater at the 18th green of the Augusta National golf course last Sunday and stroked in a tap-in to win the Masters. Watson was not quite as resplendent as Jimmy Demaret was when he won the tournament on Easter Sunday, 1947, clad in canary yellow from head to foot, but then all anyone notices in the end is the green jacket traditionally given to the Masters champion...
While attending Harvard graduate school in 1924, Jones served as the Crimson golf coach. The current Harvard coach, Bob Donovan, felt the prestige of the Jones name might convince the tournament directors to allow the Crimson golf team to watch the Masters this year on the way back from its spring trip to Florida...
...Donovan received a polite but firm refusal from Frank Broyles, the former Arkansas football coach, who is a member of the Masters Committee. Broyles offered some solace, however: in past years the golf teams of both the University of Georgia and Wake Forest, which boasts Arnold Palmer as an alum, had also been denied permission to be a part of the Masters gallery...
...played so many unbelievably tough courses in Florida that our guys were exhausted," said Donovan to explain the narrow margin of victory. The trip was vaunted as an all-around success by the linksmen, who were smothered by the conviviality of head coach "Hoops" Thebault and his Flagler golf squad...
Donovan's charges were greeted by a "Welcome Harvard Gold Team" banner draped over the front of the Ponce de Leon Inn and were then squired in a limousine to play Flagler on the Sawgrass golf club...