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...approaching call of spring, however, beckons every golfer from his secret grotto. Yesterday, Harvard golfer Spence Fitzgibbons and I furtively crept out way across the Eliot House courtyard and teed up a Titleist before the banks of the Charles. I performed the functions of Spence's caddy, looking somewhat like a hod carrier for a bricklayer. With only a chorus of quizzical birds watching, Spence unsheathed a nine-iron from his bag and sent the first shot of spring skittering across the Charles. To paraphrase Jos Sedley in Vanity Fair: "Gad, there we were, singing away like--a robin...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...winter golfer also requires a special ball to combat the elements. At the Chili Open, contestants were provided with balls which they spray painted black, green, red, or yellow...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...Bens of New York City took out patent #1,664,397 on a golf ball "with chemical pockets dotting the outer skin." When the ball impacted the pockets burst, releasing a miasma of ammonium chloride. This simple method of chemical detection would definitely be a boon to the golfer traipsing his way through a snow bank in search of the elusive pill...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...bamboo poles, biodegradable tees, and ammonium chloride balls allow the winter golfer to frolic in the snow in relative comfort. Such devices, of course, might alarm golfing traditionalists. Died in the wool golfers would be likely to concur with the judgment of "Firey," the legendary Musselburgh caddie, who when the first golf bag was introduced in Scotland in 1888 remarked that it was "nae gowf...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...almost sounds like propaganda, but Greis is sincere in her opinions, and her actions support her views. She is here playing for the men's golf team, sacrificing the chance to be a top woman golfer or even a scholarship golfer. Instead, she's a Harvard athlete getting a Harvard education...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Golf, Hoop and Ideals | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

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