Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ramsgate, England, one Gwendoline Clutterbuck played golf against a certain Mrs. H. M. Robinson on the St. Augustine Links. Miss Clutterbuck executed the 15th hole (110 yards) in a single stroke...
They played their extra 18 holes; at the last green, Jones holed a 75. Six feet away from the cup lay Macfarlane's ball, in 74. Adjusting his schoolmaster spectacles, assuring Jones that 'he could never go another hole, he purled the putt in. The, tie still stood...
What he meant by that was this: With an average 18-hole score of 74 1/12 for the 24 rounds of the last six U. S. open championships, Jones leads all other medal golfers of this country, amateur and professional, by a comfortable margin. Jones' nearest competitor is Walter Hagen, average...
...semi-final match between Cole and Pierson was particularly close. Pierson was a bit off his game going out and a recovery on these second nine still left him 4 down and 6 to play. He tightened up on the thirteenth hole and after taking the next two holes came back into the running. Cole dropped a birdie on the short sixteenth hole, however, while he was still two up, and clinched the match...
...ironies of history that Johnson, who never hesitated to venture the last word upon his literary predecessors and contemporaries, has had to submit to many attempts to weigh, catalogue, and pigeon-hole him by successors, many of whom have been eminently less qualified than he was to apply the formulae of judgment. One of the London debaters, for example, contended that since nobody nowadays reads Johnson's original works, and everybody who makes claim to learning reads Boswell, it follows that Boswell made Johnson...