Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utterly Bad." Two national farm organizations, the Grange and the left-of-center Farmers Union, urged the President, to sign. Farmers Union President James Patton shot off a sardonic telegram to the President's vacation headquarters at Augusta, Ga.: WHILE YOU ARE GOLFING IN AUGUSTA, AFTER THE NINTH HOLE OF YOUR GAME, WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL PAUSE TO GIVE SOME CONSIDERATION TO THE AMERICAN FAMILY FARMER. WE FARMERS MUST HAVE MORE MONEY IN OUR POCKETS . . . WE WANT YOU TO SIGN IT, AND THEN PICK UP THAT LITTLE WHITE TELEPHONE ON YOUR DESK AND CALL EZRA BENSON AND TELL...
Three different men contributed points against Brown. Number two man Bill McAllister and Bob Ornsteen at number three both beat their opponents one up on the twentieth hole...
Next day the weather was still bad. But for Venturi that was all right. He shot a three-under-par 69 to set a Masters' 36-hole record (135) for amateurs and tie Nelson's 14-year-old professional record for the halfway point in the tournament. In second place, Cary Middlecoff dropped farther back with a 72, for a total of 139. Hogan shot a 78 and was out of the running. Four were bunched in third place; in fourth, with 143, was Jackie Burke Jr. of Kiamesha Lake...
...first nine brought Burke within reach, and on the 18th green, a tricky, downhill putt lay between him and a one-under-par 71. Putting with a crisp tap, as if he were driving a tack into the ball, Burke sank the all-important shot for a 72-hole total...
...Venturi, who had come within a stroke of making golf history, was sad but undaunted. "It was very simple," said he. "I just couldn't get the ball in the hole. But I'll be back...