Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then more gibbering. Marston sighted 45 feet across the soggy 15th green, holed a two, ushered Ouimet out at the next hole. Sweetser eased into the finals by ousting Gardner...
Ding dong, up and down, Sweetser and Marston played to a mutual standstill in 36 holes. They walked over to the first tee and halved their 37th hole in the figure 5. They drove to the 38th, Marston on, Sweetser off. Sweetser chipped, Marston putted, and his fifth stymie of the day made Sweetser runner-up, Marston champion...
...Sweetser retained his title it would have been the first such repetition since Travers' performance in 1912. And not since 1911 has there been an extra-hole event...
Bobby Cruickshank, Shackamaxon (N. J.) professional, who tied for open champion with Bobby Jones in July and later failed to qualify for the professional championship at Pelham, holed out on a 292-yd. hole (the twelfth, short course) at the Westchester-Biltmore (N. Y.) with a single blow of his cleek...
...Cyril Burt president of the psychology section, advanced the thesis that just as there is a certain minimum intelligence required for the successful performance of any occupation, so there may also be a maximum intelligence, beyond which waste arises in forcing too large a peg into too small a hole...