Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Betty Ford checked in alone at the hospital's alcohol and drug rehabilitation center. Reason: a day earlier, her husband had left for a series of college lectures in Alabama and golf with Pro Arnold Palmer and Football Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. Thus, even at a time of family crisis, the Fords stuck to the pattern of their nearly 30 years in politics: despite concerns at home, he hits the road to build support for the G.O.P. Last month Ford spent nearly half his time traveling, speaking at seven G.O.P. fund-raising affairs, three business conventions and three college...
...Golf 392, URI 399, Southern Connecticut State...
After shooting an impeccable 36 for his front nine, the wheels came off George Arnold's game as they say in golf lingo Arnold piled up 48 strokes on his second nine...
...have remained an innocuous watering ground for the rich if not for one cataclysmic event. In 1913, a 21-year-old former caddie at The Country Club, Francis Ouimet, who lived in Brookline, won the U.S. Open there. Ouimet's victory was a watershed in the history of American golf, because he beat the two leading British professionals of the era, Harry Vardon...
...next morning Ouimet, accompanied by his ten-year-old urchin of a caddie, Eddie Lowery, astounded the golf world by matching the best ball of Vardon and Ray. Ouimet shot a 72, birdieing the 17th once again to take a three-stroke lead over Vardon. Vardon finished with a 77 and Ray shot a 79. After the monumental victory, which has since been christened "the shot heard round the world," Ouimet went out and celebrated by downing a drink called a "horse's neck," a concoction of lemon juice and ginger...