Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, the course and the weather were all peculiarly Scottish, but the winning golf in last week's British Amateur was an American monopoly. While a stinging wind whipped rain over Carnoustie course, two former U.S. amateur titleholders made it the first all-American final in the Amateur's 62-year history...
...between themselves. Chapman started out with a dazzling two under par for the first nine, went five holes ahead. Then Willie won five holes in a row to tie it up. At the 27th Willie went one up. On the next five holes Dick Chapman, playing the best golf of his career, racked up four pars and a birdie; Turnesa matched him stroke for stroke. On the 33rd Chapman faltered, missed a six-foot putt, and Turnesa took the hole. On the 34th, with a chance to stay in the running by halving, Chapman worried over his crucial putt...
...before caddied for a grown man wearing short pants," drawled the caddy. The plus fours that Bobby Locke brought with him from South Africa got plenty of attention last week in Texas. They were not the only reminder Bobby Locke brought of a past, and more genial, era in golf...
...Fort Worth last week, he tied for third, finishing four strokes behind Winner Ben Hogan. His first lap on the U.S. golf circuit had already netted him $3,537 in prizes. South Africa's Bobby Locke was obviously a man to reckon with for next month's grand prize-the U.S. Open...
High Prices. "The little man with the red face and short arms stops jumping up and down. Then he nudges the man standing next to him, says: 'How's golf been, Harry?' Before Harry can answer, a redheaded messenger dashes up, hands him a pink slip. Harry reads it close to his chest, yells: 'Sell July one. Sell July one.' The red-faced man and a dozen other traders rush him, wave their hands at him, shout in his face, scream in his ears, tug at his sleeves, dance up and down before his eyes...