Word: golfer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schooner across Long Island Sound, and a violent storm blew out the mainsail. "Some of the boys were crying or vomiting," recalls one sailor, but Hazelwood volunteered to climb the 50-ft. mast to haul in the sail and its hardware. "Jeff related to sailing like a pro golfer who swings a club for the first time," recalls Sea Scout Ralph Naranjo, who today runs a local yacht club. "He had a real feeling for the vessel...
...When golfer Lee Trevino was leading this year's Masters tournament, he proclaimed to a press assembly, "If a man had walked up to me and bet I couldn't break 76, I wouldn't have taken a quarter of the bet. And I'm a gambling man." As the New York Yankees began the baseball year in a slump, owner George Steinbrenner pledged that manager Dallas Green would last the entire season. As he put it, "If you want to go out and make a bet . . ." Given Steinbrenner's way with managers, cordons of nuns might have burst from...
...sports the autograph is fundamentally a province of baseball, though all athletes are besieged in some measure. Football players who are able to write their name often do so. "I won't sign anything flimsy," says golfer Lee Trevino, who recalls autographing a $5 bill once for a persistent woman in a restaurant. " 'I'll treasure it forever,' she told me. Of course, I got it back from the cashier in my change." The only autograph basketball's Tom Van Arsdale ever solicited was from an Indiana high school kid, Oscar Robertson, when Van Arsdale was even younger...
Forget about 1989 Masters champion Nick Faldo and his green jacket. Every golfer in the world should always remember Scott Hoch, the runner...
Every avid golfer has a "handicap," but Steve Gandy has a real one. An insurance agent in Van, Texas, the 36-year-old Gandy has no hands. He lost them in an accident 14 years ago, and has to hold his clubs with metal prostheses. Still, Gandy often heads for the links and shoots a respectable 85 or so for 18 holes. Debbie La Plante, 21, a sophomore at the University of Toledo, enjoys racing in marathons. Her best time in the grueling 26.2-mile event is 3 hr. 31 min. That may not be a world record...