Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Squating beside every green, milling through the crowds that followed the players, were U. S. reporters, looking for drama. They were disappointed. The drama in any medal tournament is the drama of endurance; a man's opponent is the game of golf. If Hagen had been playing a match with Jones, then niblicks would have spurted epigrams, drivers snapped dialogue, sparkling marivaudage would have clicked in every putt. . . . But Jones was not playing Hagen. He was playing golf...
Discussing these matters on the golf course over the weekend, even crabbed gentlemen whose putting was way off were forced to admit that steel is still industry's best barometer. Of the General Motors rise they could point out that it was based on a report from Detroit that retail auto sales in May had unprecedentedly outstripped sales in April, but that this report was based, in turn, upon unusually late motoring weather. The 30 other stocks were, however, indubitable evidence of the bankers' determination to make a market. And the higher-than-ever seat price could...
...second hole when Mitchell bunkered an iron shot. He won the fourth hole when Mitchell hooked a drive. He won the fifth and sixth holes with faultless golf, the tenth with a birdie. After that he was never behind again. Mitchell, quite obviously, was stewing in his own juice. Perspiration poured into his eyes; he had his caddy fetch a towel from the clubhouse, complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might...
...largest official stake ever offered for a professional golf match...
...that day and these gentlemen wanted, if possible, to be in two places at once. Those of soundest judgment deserted all thought of horse-racing, stayed to watch Jones play two rounds in 134-a stunning 66, a steady 68-36 holes with but one 5 and one 2-golf of legend...