Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the shadow of a grey city, beside a strip of sea, stretches the golf course of St. Andrews, Scotland. Gulls fly over it, hills rise out of it, fairways cut cool lanes through its yellow furze. And at St. Andrews, last week, a U. S. golf team defeated an English golf team for the. Walker...
...some measure to the Rhodes Scholarships offered each year to students in American institutions, was 38 less than were turned in last year. Most of the new appointees, besides being honor students are interested in some form of athletics. The following sports appear on their applications blanks: football, tennis, golf, water polo, Badminton, which is a variety of British football; and on the blanks of the feminine competitors, punting, dancing and hiking were also named. The following is the list of the newly appointed fellows, the British Universities from which they come, the studies which they are to follow...
...bonny sun shone, a gentle breeze blew, the Firth of Forth sparkled bright as hard by it they played for the British amateur-golf championship down the dour long fairways of Muirfield (near Edinburgh...
Solemn British journalists who reported the meeting between Mr. Simpson and Mr. Sweetser wrote about everything but golf. They wrote about the clear day and the blue heather and the crowd of 6,000 lords, ladies, and gentlemen. When they found it necessary to mention the game that was being played that day, they said that Sweetser was a champion and that Simpson was a good golfer. There was really nothing more to be said. If Mr. S. F. Simpson of Glasgow joined your foursome next Sunday, you would admire his game. You would remember him as an exceptionally quiet...
...summers ago that Jess Sweetser, then a Yale undergraduate, came to fame by winning first the Metropolitan title and then, at Brookline, Mass., the national amateur championship. At Flossmoor, Ill., in 1923, he relinquished his national title to Max Marston of Philadelphia only after 38 holes of amazing competitive golf. Possessed of a slightly unorthodox style, he is more given to "spells" of brilliance or mediocrity than some other golfers, but his courage and resourcefulness are of an extremely high order. His opponents never feel secure against the "impossible" shots that it is his habit to bring off. . . . Siwanoy Club...