Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first ten chapters, replete with graceful, pipe-in-mouth poses by the author, meticulously initiate the duffer into the serious mysteries of golf. Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British...
...delight in pounding colossal tee-shots, neglecting the rest of their game. Americans, intent upon complete mastery of whatever they take up, hold themselves in to "an old man's game" off the tees and "evoke admiration by their daring and skilful shots up to the flag." Americans take golf intensely, says Tolley; they spend more time and money on it, have orthodox professional stylists after whom to model their games. Not so the English. To them it is only a game, to be played...
...Another feat was to loft balls from the lawn of University College to the sward of Queen's College over the walls and across "the High." A servant would then call at Queens, mocking politely: "Mr. Tolley's compliments to the gentlemen of Queens and might he have his golf balls back...
...Jones '24, playing brilliant golf, defeated Francis Ouimet yesterday 11 up and 10 to play, and won his way to the finals of the National Amateur Golf Championship now being played on the links of the Merion Cricket Club, at Ardmore...
...final match will be played today, weather permitting, and if Jones continues playing the kind of golf that he has played throughout the tournament the chances of his becoming National Amateur champion, according to golf experts, are good...