Word: hoch
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Forget about 1989 Masters champion Nick Faldo and his green jacket. Every golfer in the world should always remember Scott Hoch, the runner...
...Hoch had two chances to win the Masters. Two three-foot putts. Two 60-foot misses...
Golf is a strange game. A bounce here, a roll there, and the difference between a green jacket and frustration is immense. Hoch learned that Sunday in Augusta, Ga. But countless golfers know how he feels...
That is why anyone who has ever played golf should feel sorry for Hoch. If we had a dollar for all the easy putts we have missed, we would have enough money to solve the federal deficit and the Latin American debt crisis, with plenty left over to purchase a few fast-food franchises...
Born Ludvik Hoch, Maxwell was the third of nine children of dirt-poor Hasidic Jews living in the eastern slice of Czechoslovakia known as Ruthenia. During World War II, he lost his parents and four siblings in Auschwitz; he escaped by joining the French underground. He had only three years of schooling but was a genius with languages -- he could speak eight by the time he was grown -- and figures. He joined the British forces and in two years transformed himself from a Czech ruffian into a British army officer who was awarded the Military Cross for bravery in charging...