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Reminiscing about her time as a player, Rooney praised the depth of the Harvard program and the completeness of her training as a golfer. “Last year we went to Monterrey and San Francisco and we played Pebble Beach and Cypress Point and the San Francisco Golf Club. I think I’ve already reached the peak of my golf life,” she said...
...challenge. “The hard part was that the wind was swirling so it would change direction, even on the same hole,” sophomore Peter Singh said. Singh shot 80-76 to finish tied for 41st at 14-over and was one of the very few golfers, along with teammate Mayer, to post a lower score in the second round than in the first. Aside from the wind, weather conditions were ideal, especially for this time of the year. Temperatures reached the 60s on Saturday and the skies were clear and sunny. Still, team members considered Shelter...
...very many people at Harvard have done what sophomore golfer Claire Sheldon did last Saturday. Actually, only one person ever...
...father plans to celebrate his 90th birthday next month. Instead of continuing the line of optometrists in the family, Galanter originally planned to spend his days on the links. "I was in line to become a professional golfer," he says. "I probably grew up in the only Jewish family whose parents did not want their son to become a doctor or lawyer." But O.J. is probably glad Galanter didn't choose to swing clubs for money...
...most famous émigré was Stewart Maiden, who left Carnoustie in 1907 for East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, where he was studied and imitated by a young Bobby Jones. Maiden's swing, passed on to Jones, had significantly more rotation than today's players exhibit - generations of golfers have further refined the Carnoustie technique - but its fundamental utilization of upper-body rotation instead of a full-body twist remains unchanged. Jones, the only golfer ever to win four major championships in the same year, would later write: "Stewart had the finest and soundest style I have ever seen...