Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Stranahan of Toledo, who won the British Amateur golf championship five weeks ago (TIME, June 7), got some friendly advice from an unexpected source. After being presented to King George VI, he reported, "The King told me he thought I turned my left hand too far over when I grip the club...
...world's largest commercial airport opened last week. Its official name was New York International Airport, but millions of New Yorkers knew it as "Idlewild," the name of a golf course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan's Airlines Terminal) covers an area as large as Manhattan Island from 42nd Street to the Battery; its 35 all-weather krypton flash approach lights (3,300,000,000 peak beam candlepower) are the brightest ever made by man. Idlewild's ten miles of paved runways (six strips completed...
Next day, he drove out to Long Island for the only exercise he says he wants from now on-a game of golf...
Last week, little (137 Ibs.) Ben Hogan showed up in Los Angeles (along with 170 others) to play in the U.S. Open. He seemed the coolest of the lot. As always, his face was as phlegmatic as an oldtime faro dealer's.* The long Riviera golf course was to his advantage. Although he insists that "There's no such thing as a course that fits a man's playing style," the boys called Riviera "Hogan's Alley." He had won two Los Angeles Opens there in the past two years...
...since chunky Gene Sarazen did it 26 years ago had a golfer won the P.G.A. and the Open the same summer. It looked as if big-time golf had again found a man it could call champion...