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Jones secured his position as the greatest and most popular golfer of his era when he won the U.S. amateur in 1930 in the final leg of the incomparable "Grand Slam". After beating Gene Homans nine and seven for that fifth amateur title, Jones went into retirement and began to envision a golf course that would serve as a monument to his philosophy of the game. Jones wanted his club to be a truly national one, where "men of means might play with kindred spirits...
Lindsay attributed the Winthrop victory to team spirit. "Everybody shows up for the games so everyone has a sense where we're going to be." Alex "Hatchetman" Vik, varsity golfer and a former all-Oslo player, said "We outroughed Kirkland House...
Although Darwin was a man of unsurpassed personal charm, his enthusiasm for sports and the pugnacious attitude that allowed him to become a championship golfer in his own right, added a certain lovable but disarming, and at times boorish, intensity to his personality. The passion that infuses all of Darwin's writings can perhaps best be traced to Ryde's insight that "every game he watched or took part in assumed the proportions of an heroic encounter...
...develop old colonial buildings there. Then he drove us over the golf course, right across the seventh green. It was not just the President's car crossing the sacrosanct turf but Mr. Bob's as well, in close attendance behind. Plainly the President is not a golfer. But he pointed out to us the spot where he often plays basketball with his team. From there we went to Lake Victoria, where he made his point with the Coders and America, and following this we had the presidentially guided tour of the airport...
This is the international tournament in which Harvard's number one golfer Alex Vik played in this fall as a member of the Norwegian team. The American entry of Nicklaus, Deane Beman, Bob Gardner, and Bill Hyndman won the event held at Merion that year with Jack shooting rounds of 66, 67, 68 and 68, a full 18 strokes ahead of Hogan's total of 287 when he won the U.S. Open...