Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throat. The writer would, however, undertake to try conclusions with any ordinary amateur boxer or wrestler, would gamble on his ability as a fisherman, and if actually necessary take a hand in a free-for-all fight. He would not, however, be a contender in a tennis match, golf game or cross country run, for the reason that he has had no taste or training for the latter trinity. The President knows he is not a bronco buster, and further knows that he is needed as President of the United States. While I am a Democrat I have always admired...
...remember that Ben E. Stein of Seattle was runner-up in the 1926 Western Amateur Golf Championship?an obscure runner-up is easily forgotten. But last week when Ben E. Stein played one-under-par golf to defeat Eddie Held in the finals of the Western Amateur at Seattle, his friends in the Northwest began to boom him as a potential rival of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and George von Elm in future U. S. Amateur Championships...
...Patented in 1903 by Robert E. Knight of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Walter Travis, many times an amateur champion and noted especially for his putting ability, brought the " Schenectady" to fame in 1904 by using one to win the British Amateur Championship. In 1905, the British Golf Association barred centre-shafted clubs from its tournaments. In 1920, the U.S.G.A. followed suit. But, like the forbidden rib-faced mashie, "Schenectadies" are still widely...
...Golf spread and changed after 1875. Champions rose and fell. Harry Vardon won the British Open six times; J. H. Taylor and James Braid, five times each. But they were grown men before they became golf masters, and the few youngsters that flashed into prominence from time to time winked out briefly." Not until 1926, when he won the British Open with a 291 that tied J. H. Taylor's record of 1909, did another young man come along who really played them "Sure and Far." Last year Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, with his 68 at Sunningdale (while...
Hence the unusual crowds last week at St. Andrews, cradle of golf. They banked the fairways with solid walls of humanity, 20,000 strong. An obscure Frenchman named Rene Golias led half the qualifying play with a 71, and Cyril Tolley, the ponderous English amateur, led the whole flight with 144. But the main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite...