Word: golfer
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...Katie is a phenomenal golfer,” captain Carrie Baizer said. “She had an incredible season...
...ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality." Plausible, perhaps, but there are lots of folks who are monomaniacal in other "trivial" spheres and who come out psychically intact. Tiger Woods was raised from infancy to be a great golfer and is not just intact but graceful and charming. The ranks of great golfers, swimmers and Dominican shortstops are not more noticeably skewed to the deranged than the general population...
...complete coincidence that baseball's strike was short-lived. Over an amazing prestrike weekend, baseball's Rod Carew, Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, football's Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson and Roger Staubach, a runner named Steve Cram, a tennis player named Boris Becker and an amateur golfer named Scott Verplank had got in the first word, not for the players or the owners but for the games: excellence. On dark occasions in sports, the President and both houses of Congress can vouch for this inessential industry as an essential reverie, and still the public may have a little difficulty recalling...
Once Charles Seaver was an amateur golfer of Walker Cup class renowned for his serenity under fire. His boy is quick to correct anyone who says he played golf the way Tom pitches: "I pitch the way he played golf." Finding himself in New York now was another incredibility to Seaver. "Tom is really still a Met," Mets First Baseman Keith Hernandez insisted the next day as Seaver's former New York teammates bellied around a television set (equitably enough, in Chicago). Baseball's particular prodigy, Pitcher Dwight Gooden, 20, had just won his eleventh consecutive game to break...
Harvard senior golfer Cliff Ryan didn’t fare quite as well as Tiger Woods at this weekend’s Yale Spring Opener. But he came close...