Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Putting is foreign to the rest of the game. One of them should be called golf and the other something else." He put in long practice "tapping" the ball (for short putts) and "rolling" it (for long ones). Then he took a practice spin around Riviera's 18-hole championship course...
...with, then have tempered under pressure. Hogan's outward manifestation of it: a frozen half-grin, something like an infant's "gas smile," denoting pain inside. When the going gets tough as it did in the 1947 Jacksonville Open-he took eleven strokes on a par-three hole-the Hogan nerves hold. On the next hole at Jacksonville he got a birdie...
...where he wants his ball to stop rolling; he expects to come very close. From each of his clubs he exacts similar standard ranges (see chart). Between shots, as he walks briskly along the fairway, Hogan's mind is working ahead. Heading for a second shot on one hole, he will crane to see where the pin has been spotted on a nearby green still to be played (pins are moved every day in tournament golf...
...deficit, following the usual practice, will be eventually made up out of the '51 class dues. In previous years, Red Books have been as much as $1000 in debt; the '50 Red Book went over $200 in the hole...
Ready or not ... In Tallman, N.Y., Joseph Castellucci returned to his summer home shortly after the deer season opened, found: 1) a bullet-scarred chimney, 2) a well-riddled wall, 3) a bullet hole in the front window, 4) another in a bedroom mirror...