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...only Japanese college that could boast a course on the culture of golf, Hagi International University shouldn't have had that much trouble attracting applicants. Yet not even putting precepts taught by a pro golfer could save Hagi from recently becoming the first university in Japan to apply for bankruptcy protection because of a lack of students. The international-relations school, located in southwest Japan, opened in 1999 at a cost of $58 million, but was never able to get off the ground. Today, it has 194 students?16% of the target class size. "The school was undercapacitated from...
...first chapter is a stunner. At dawn on a Good Friday in the Princeton-like community of Haddam, N.J., Bascombe and X meet at Ralph's grave to mark the boy's birthday. They talk more honestly than they ever could as husband and wife. She is a gifted golfer with hopes of joining the L.P.G.A. tour. There are two other Bascombe children who live with her in a new development house. Frank has kept the old Tudor residence rather than move to Manhattan. He rents the top floor to a Gabonese theology student, belongs to a divorced...
...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...
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...