Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surveying the Augusta National Golf Club for the first time, a Sunday golfer might be moved to wonder what all the shouting was about. For the site of the annual Masters tournament (and favorite course of President Eisenhower) is a deceptively simple layout, and par seems to invite a licking. But the masters of golf know better. The best pros have to scramble to stay on top at Augusta, and in the first 19 years of the tournament no amateur ever won the Masters. Last week, when 84 players teed off for the 20th Masters, the expectations and the odds...
Despite the rain and the wind, the varsity golf team rose to the occasion, downing Rutgers yesterday at New Brunswick, 6 to 1, in its first match of the season...
...golf team, with increased strength in the lower positions this year, opens its season today against Rutgers at New Brunswick...
...calm, friendly man with a reputation for an even temper, eager Engineer Murphree lives quietly with his wife in suburban Summit. N.J. He relaxes by listening to records on a hi-fi set he assembled and installed himself, and by playing 16-handicap golf. Fellow golfers say he could trim strokes off his score if he would only quit experimenting with new theories on how to improve his game...
...Weekend. To boost company revenues, as well as to speed travel, Reed cultivates most of the top businessmen and Government officials in the U.S. and abroad. One postwar venture for the company was suggested by President Eisenhower, with whom Reed occasionally plays golf. Europe-bound on the Queen Mary in 1946, Reed was called in by Fellow Passenger Ike, who suggested that American Express could set up recreation, banking and sightseeing services for U.S. occupation troops. As a result, American Express now operates 115 overseas offices and 54 mobile units for G.I.s, has 30 agents to handle sailors' tours...