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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Percy R. Pyne, 2d, of Princeton won the individual intercollegiate golf championship last Saturday, defeating J. G. Averill of Harvard, after a tie on the last of the second eighteen holes, by the score of 5-4 on the extra hole...
...morning round up to the turn, when he was two up. At the first tee Averill drove the better ball, but over-pitched on his mashie shot falling in the trap bunker beyond the green. It cost him two to get out of the bunker, and Pyne won the hole, 5-7. Averill won the second hole, 3-4, through Pyne's indifferent putting. Both men made the third green in three, but the Princeton man won on the putting, 5-6. On the fourth hole, Averill pulled his drive; Pyne sliced his second, but won by 6-7. Both...
...afternoon Pyne had cut down Averill's lead to two up and then won the twenty-eighth, 4-5. Pyne was now one down. On the twenty-ninth, Averill had a good four and won the hole, 4-6. Then followed five halved holes and Averill was dormie two. On the thirty-fifth, Pyne won, 5-6, and Averill was still dormie. Pyne scored an excellent three on the last while Averill took four because of a short drive. The match was now a tie. On the extra hole both were on the green in two, but Pyne scored...
...exception of Henderson's and Wadsworth's, who beat their men 6 and 3 up respectively. Tiffany Richardson and John Stuart played one of the closest and most exciting of the day's matches. At the end of the first round Richardson was 3 up, but at the sixteenth hole Stuart caught him and, as the last two holes were halved, they were all even on the match...
...match between Clark of Harvard, and Pyne of Princeton, was also an exciting one. At the fifteenth hole Clark was one up, but Pyne gained on him, and won the match one up. The scores were Pyne, 80; Clark, 82. The morning's play thus ended with Harvard ten, Princeton...