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Sailor-Poet. But according to Day, young Lowry was not just a budding aesthete. After losing his baby fat, he turned into a credible rugger player, a strong swimmer and an excellent golfer. He wrote jazz songs and played the ukulele, an instrument that accompanied him all his life. He even spent a year as a deck hand aboard a freighter (driven to the dock in the family Rolls). Upon his return he entered Cambridge, where he played the experienced sailor-poet, began work on his first novel, Ultramarine, and started serious drinking...
...cities and needed farms; by necessity, many greens have been put on hillsides, where they result in the destruction of forests, blocked streams and erosion. "There's something definitely abnormal about this, a bit of sheer outlandishness," says Chiba prefecture's governor, Taketo Tomono, an occasional golfer. To discourage the building of more courses, Tomono's government has stipulated that they must meet severe-perhaps impossible -ecological standards. "It will be tough indeed," he boasts, "for a new course to open up in our prefecture." Following Tomono's lead, at least 35 of Japan...
...Much of what is called golf pollution is something altogether imagined or emotional," says Norio Nomura, an official at the Ministry of Construction in Tokyo. "When the most precious commodity in Japan-land-gets grabbed up fast, the people react sharply and emotionally." Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a devoted golfer, adds: "Golf courses retain greenery. Japan needs more greenery and more golf courses...
None of the above, says Weiskopf. How, then, has he done it? Let him count the ways: "Basically and simply, I have matured. I have set higher goals. I have worked harder. I am more determined to be a complete and better golfer. I am more sure of myself. I am more relaxed. I don't let adversity get the best of me." Personal grief played a part. "My father lived for golf," he says. "When he died last March, I realized that I hadn't accomplished what I should have for him. In watching him fight death...
...father, a trainmaster in Columbus, was an accomplished amateur golfer, as was Weiskopf's mother. Though they early schooled young Tom in the finer points of golf, his interests were focused elsewhere. "In high school," he says, "I competed in football, basketball, baseball, wrestling and track and wasn't any good at any of them." Giving in to the inevitable, he took up golf in earnest and "went from being a straight A student to a straight C." As a freshman at Ohio State he caddied for Upperclassman Jack Nicklaus, then the young master of amateur golf. Impressed...