Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert A. Gardner, of Yale, was national amateur golf champion in 1909 and again...
...England. No Tolley. No Wethered. No Holderness. No invading Americans. It was a situation without recent precedent in the history of British Amateur Golf Championships. But there it was, as plain as the nose on a plain caddy's face, and you had to accept it, whether you liked it or not. The indomitable Tolley, who had beaten Hans Samek of Hamburg, ''the first German ever entered in a British golf championship," was eliminated by a man named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain...
...gentlemen of the Examining Board pushed their papers away, sat back with various demonstrations of relief. They had finished arranging, in honorable order, the scores of the 95 golfers who, at Long Beach, L. I., in Chicago, on the Coast, qualified for the Open Golf Championship. There were 5 from the Pacific Coast, 30 from Chicago, 60 from the East and 1 player who did not have to qualify-Cyril Walker of New Jersey, the champion. There was also one score so much lower than any of the rest that the weary examiners, their labor over, discussed...
MacDonald Smith is one of the Smith Brothers. No bearded rapscallion he, seller of sugar-coated cough drops, but the most brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing...
...Worcester links this morning will be watched with keen interests by sport lovers the world over. Everyone loves a winner and especially one who starts off badly and recoups himself in the very shadow of defeat. Jone's record, whether he wins or loses, will always be remembered in golf history...