Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty-two U. S. golf clubs were minus their professionals last week. The 32 had absconded simultaneously to the bottom of the State of Indiana, there to dispute the Professional Golfers' Association championship over the French Lick Links. Qualifying rounds having been played by districts (TIME, Sept. 8), the 32 plunged into match play without ado. Fur flew in the second round, when Gene Sarazen, of Briarcliff, N. Y., champion these two years, was suddenly ousted by an "unknown," one Larry Nabholtz, of Lima, Ohio. Nabholtz nabbed "the Grinning Runt" at the 35th green. Bobby Cruickshank, of Shacka-maxon...
...Claude M. Hart, 58, of Boston, won the play-off of his tie with Henry S. Redfield, 59, of Hartford, for the U. S. senior golf title (TIME, Sept. 22). Scores?Hart, 77; Redfield, 84, over the Apawamis course. Oddly, both men were of that rare links species, the lefthander...
...Stoke Poges, Eng., Simone Thiou de la Chaume, 15, petite Parisian prodigy, smacked her drives, whacked her brassies, cracked her irons, popped her putts in, won the British Girls' Golf Championship, was hailed "Lenglen of the Links...
...victory of Robert Jones '24 in the National Amateur Golf Championship on Saturday occasioned little surprise in the University. He has always been a brilliant player, one who could be counted upon to finish among the leaders in any tournament which he entered. Experts have long hailed him as the greatest artist among golfers and have predicted that his ultimate coronation would be only a question of time. His performance at Merion did little more than make official a title which he had borne unofficially for several years...
...always, the general appearnce of the Advocate is dignified and distinguished. And if the soul of an English A instructor is wounded by the too numberous mechanical errors, he may do well to remember that undergraduates who are meticulous about boat trimmings and golf clubs, even literary undergraduates, have little respect for craftsmanship in the mechanics of writing. Perhaps the Advocate editors consider cavalier treatment of spelling and punctuation as an indication of their freedom from pettiness. At any rate there are errors enough to shame a capable proofreader...