Word: golfed
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...Meanwhile, Harvard women’s golf was 40 minutes from campus at the Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton, Mass., finishing up a strong performance at the 2009 Brown Invitational that was crafted in spite of poor overall weekend conditions. Of the many sports that are altered by wind and crippled by rain, golf is by nature one of the most vulnerable...
...Home field advantage is non-existent in golf, as players from the Boston area prefer to travel south when the spring season starts...
After its first look at Ivy opponents, the Harvard men’s golf team likes where it stands in the league: right at the top. Traveling to New Haven for the Yale Spring Open, the Crimson edged out the hometown Bulldogs in Round 1 and took a decisive 10-stroke advantage in Round 2, finishing the nine-team open atop the leaderboard at 595. Yale settled for second at 610, and Dartmouth finished just behind non-conference opponent Skidmore at 614, good enough for fourth. Non-Ivy teams Hartford, Canisius, Niagara, Trinity, and Fordham also competed in the open...
Harrington's recent success has come with an asterisk. Tiger Woods was absent with a knee injury during Harrington's last two major wins, and many now question whether the Irish player's workmanlike skill can challenge golf's chosen one. Harrington carries no false hope. "When Tiger's having a good week, there's not much opportunity for anyone else," he says. His mental coach has instructed him to focus on his own game, as there's not much he or anyone else can learn from studying his monumentally talented rival. "It's silly to pay attention to someone...
...caddy often asks Harrington before he takes his club back whether he's happy, to which he usually answers in the affirmative. When he's frustrated, he might say "delirious." (One of Harrington's conversational tics is a habit of breaking down his answers as if analyzing a golf swing or commentating on a match. "Now I'm actually being smart when I say 'delirious.' I'm actually being facetious with that remark," he says...