Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Augusta, Ga. by chartered airplane last week flew a ten-man delegation from the Republican National Committee for a conclave about as suspenseful as an American League pennant race. At the Augusta National Golf Club the travelers were welcomed by a tanning and smiling Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, sat down for lunch with the President in the whitebrick, four-pillared Mamie's Cabin near Augusta's tenth fairway. Over lunch the group got down to business. Connecticut's Meade Alcorn was retiring as national chairman (TIME, April 13), Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton...
Fighting advancing darkness, lack of practice, and a poorly tended course, the Crimson golf team won both of its opening matches yesterday by 4-3 margins. Boston College and Wesleyan were each defeated in a single round that was scored as two dual contests...
...University cut the subsidy for the golf team this year, and funds to finance practice rounds were short. For the majority of the team members, the qualifying rounds, started Saturday on the Unicorn course, marked the first time they had been on the fairway this season...
...panacea to the cost problem, is not an equitable solution. "Minor" sports represent the interests of a definite part of the undergraduate body--and just because the amount of interest is now low, this does not preclude a future increase in interest. Last June, the H.A.A. dropped lacrosse and golf as varsity sports, and reduced support for club-teams in sailing, skiing, rifle, and pistol--a savings of $15,000 annually (about the salary of a full professor...
...Suddenly finding his putting touch and scoring five birdies on the last six holes, Art Wall Jr., saturnine, 35-year-old golf pro from Pocono Manor, Pa. who has been the hottest golfer on the early spring circuit, came from nowhere in the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. He overhauled the leaders with a six-under-par final round of 66. Arnold Palmer, last year's Masters champion, who tied for the lead with Canada's Stan Leonard at the end of the third round, triple-bogied the treacherous twelfth hole, narrowly missed...