Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immense throng of people gathered round the Duke of York at Richmond, where he had gone to open a public golf course by driving the first ball. To caddies, the Duke said: "I'll give a gold sovereign (?1) to the caddy who retrieves the ball." Off scampered the caddies. Some stopped 75 yards away, others at the 100-yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies...
Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, having won the women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis championships of France (TIME, June 15), put away her brace of rackets, adventured on the golf course of the St. Cloud Country Club, turned in a 93* which won her second prize in a tournament organized by a sporting journal...
...performance almost comparable to that of Miss Mary K. Browne who, last year, was the runner-up in the U.S. Nationalist Women's Golf (TIME Sept. 15), semi-finalist in the U.S. National Women's Tennis (TIME...
June 18. Headquarters, Holworthy 20. After the alumni procession, those who do not attend the exercises in the Yard will meet at the headquarters of the class and go to the Oakley Country Club at Watertown for the "'One Club' '99 Stroke Golf Competition." Supper will be served at the club at 7 o'clock...
Thin Legs and Fat Legs trudged the golf hills. Sharp-faced Thin Legs was in his thirties; rubicund Fat Legs in his twenties. Thin Legs the wiry stylist, Fat Legs one of the most compact and well-oiled golfing units in the world. Where they walked, the sun had tarried long and close, until the hills steamed. They had walked, for miles, all others dropping. Thin Legs of Scotland, used to braw winds; Fat Legs of Georgia, fond of sweltering...