Word: golfes
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Junior Spence Fitzgibbons and sophomore Jim Dales were selected co-captains of next year's Harvard golf squad yesterday. They will replace senior Alex Vik, who served as captain the past two seasons...
Clark probably envisioned that one day the town would be the site of three golf courses not to mention an atomic energy plant. These days young Paducans spend their time hunting birdies instead of bears. One of the new breed of golfing Paducans is David Paxton, a senior on the Harvard golf team who played some of the most superlative golf of his career this season. His teammates simply refer to him as "Paducah." "Paducah" Paxton took up the game just after dispensing with his swaddling clothes, wielding a sawed-off set of clubs handed to him by his father...
Paxton learned to play at the Paxton Park Municipal Golf Course, the only public 18 in Paducah. His grandfather Edwin J. Paxton was an early devotee of the game. In 1937 he agreed to match the amount raised by a Paducah civil council for constructing a golf course, and the new layout was accordingly named in his honor. Paxton's mother's family also settled early in the Bluegrass state, although, they did not take to golf with quite as much gusto. His mother's ancestors crossed the Cumberland Gap in a covered wagon and settled in Cadiz, Kentucky, which...
...Secret Service detail went pale as I climbed in and we took off down one of the narrow roads that run around the perimeter of Camp David. At one point there is a very steep slope with a sign at the top reading, "Slow, Dangerous Curve." Even driving a golf cart down it, I had to use the brakes in order to avoid going off the road. Brezhnev was driving more than 50 miles an hour as we approached the slope. When we reached the bottom, there was a squeal of rubber as he ... made the turn. After our drive...
...David, who is living with his wife Julie near her father's complex at San Clemente and writing a biography of his grandfather, he says that something of Ike must have rubbed off on him. "I don't feel pressured as intensely anywhere else as on a golf course," he told Your Place. "A 3-ft. putt is really a test of your moral and intellectual capacity...