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...Harvard golf team-has to endure its share of comments about the sport, but on the whole it receive the respect due a team which has captured four Greater Boston Championships in the last five years and regularly beaten most of its Ivy opponents as well Co-captain Carroll Lowenstein '82 takes some ribbing from Equipment Manager Chet Stone who says he can't believe the team "has to go out and play golf every day. "But the Level II team undergoes he same rigors of daily training and weekly competition as any other varsity...
...most demanding aspect of the game may well be its unpredictable nature. For some players, this means frustration. But others, such as Lowenstein, view it as a challenge. "You can never have a perfect round," he points out, calling golf the kind of game where "you need to think of a lot more--you have 200 yards to consider the water, the woods and to try and figure out what you did wrong...
Teammate Steve Baker calls golf "a nasty combination of concentration and physical ability." Baker, who began playing golf on a converted cow pasture renamed Rolling Acres near his New London. Ohio, hometown, thinks the demands on a Harvard golfer make it less than idyllic. Carrying your own clubs, which can weigh 30 pounds or more, for 18 to 36 holes is a "mini-marathon," for anyone he says. The team doesn't ride around in golf carts sipping martinis between tees. They also play in adverse conditions. "At home," Baker remarks, "you wouldn't think of going...
Baker, Crosby and Lowenstein all agree that golf is not restricted to any elite class in America. "That may have been true 50 years ago, but not any more," Crosby asserts. Baker, who has played on both public and private courses, says "the surroundings are secondary--the golf is the main thing." The Ohio golf leagues are proof that it is "a working man's sport--definitely not elite," he says, calling it the kind of game where one packs a few beers into the golfbag and heads, shirtless, off into the sunset...
Crosby, who doubles as assistant director of the Massachusetts Golf Association, claims the majority of golfers in the state play at public courses. His offices, which look out onto Leo Martin Golf Course, arrange tournaments and set handicaps for 37,000 golfers--one of the largest groups in the country...