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...Characteristically, he insists that he has never been "intimate with any of them." He recalls being scandalized at his first presidential press conference in 1922 by irreverent questions thrown at Warren G. Harding, who in plus fours pleaded, "Gentlemen, go easy. I want to get out and play some golf." And when Calvin Coolidge dictated a single sentence, had 25 copies of it made and cut into two-inch strips, then handed them out without comment to reporters who had lined up. The sentence read: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." Strout resents the later advent...
...inspires so little romance, Tom Watson has a predilection for the romantic, a trait once associated with golf. "It's a slow game," says the finest golfer in the world, "and it's difficult to get the full meaning of it without taking time. You play along a while against the course, until, eventually, it comes down to the last nine holes, and you go after the other guy, usually just one other guy." Watson almost wishes there were no television then. "Isn't the book always better than the movie?" he wonders. "It's always...
Watson has the imagination of a dreamer. "Sure, you play-act on the golf course growing up," he says, "play out your fantasies." In that delightful aside after his U.S. Open victory at Pebble Beach last summer, Watson told how, while a student at nearby Stanford, he had often practiced just the closing holes there, thinking: "All right, you need to play these last two holes one-under to beat Nicklaus in the Open." Watson's dramatic chip-in at 17 last June, which the world thought was miraculously struck, he considered only amazingly timed. "To do it then...
...enjoys hunting birds; eating them too. He likes being outside by himself. "There are more drawbacks than pluses to fame," he says. "I think so. They say fame is fleeting. I hope so." One drawback is never being allowed to be alone on a golf course. In Ireland once, he called for a dew sweeper's teetime at Ballybunion Golf Club and asked the pro to keep it quiet. When Watson arrived, 3,000 Irishmen were waiting. "I just miss the beauty of an empty golf course," says Watson, who can rhapsodize about the fragrance of Augusta when...
...Golf at Princeton...