Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Harvard golf team could not get out to the course yesterday, the rain did not prevent that rite known as the first swing of spring from taking place as scheduled. Undaunted by the pelting rain and driven snow, Spence Fitzgibbons, one of the captains of the golf team, found a suitably muddy patch of turf and surrounded by a tatterdemalion group of caddies and onlookers proceeded to tee up his ball and waggle his driver in preparation...
...driver came down in a graceful are, the whizzing ball bore its way out over the Charles, and the opening of spring golf season was official...
While awaiting the coming of spring, the golfer has to ward off his malaise with appropriate diversions. One of the most popular means to avoid the doldrums during the long winter months is to play "ice golf." Every year over two hundred golfers take part in the Chili Open Golf Classic that is played in Akron, Ohio in the dead of winter...
...Chili Open is held on Nesmith Lake when it is frozen over a foot solid. The participants are given colored golf balls, holes are gouged out of the ice, and evergreen trees are placed along the slick fairways...
Surprisingly enough, it is possible to trace playing golf on the ice back to a distant origin. Samuel Parrish, one of the founders of Shinnecock Golf Club in Southampton, Long Island wrote: "One winter's day in the '90s Major Morton and myself went over to Lake Agawam to hit a few balls around on the ice. The Major suggested that I make an attempt to break all records for driving a golf ball. We selected a suitable spot and I managed to hit a good one which, with a strong wind, carried to the ice and, once...