Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Green, who led most of the way, needed a birdie on the 72nd hole to force a sudden-death playoff. He ladled an 8-iron approach to within three feet of the flagstick. Then he jabbed the pivotal putt to the left of the cup and Player had earned his third green Masters jacket...
...keen eye. He was very good with a rifle, very good with golf clubs, and had this feeling for the lie of the land ... I do believe that I have some of it, in relation to golf ... I certainly have a feeling for the drainage of a golf hole, the sheltering effect of trees, the feel of the surface soil under my spikes...
...Name"), rocking mockers ("Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother"), chomping satires ("My Whole World Lies Waiting Behind Door Number Three"), love-into-lust songs ("Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw"), and bitter-enders much bleaker than the usual tears-in-beers ("Sam Stone: There's A Hole in Daddy's Arm Where All the Money Goes"). The sound was a lot cleaner than the Nashville over-productions in the early '70s, but the revolution, the genre-busting, was in the lyrics...
Jacksonville won the match with a team aggregate of 313 while Harvard racked up a 316 total. Captain Alex Vik led the linksmen with a round of 75 after carding an unedifying eight on the first hole. The smooth-swinging freshman duo of Glenn Alexander and Brett Johnson twirled rounds of 75 and 77. Alexander, whose drives are nothing short of majestic, never failed to break 80 in competition...
Alexander would have had a 79 if he had managed to par the last hole on a round foreshortened by darkness. This is a splendid achievement considering that pro Don Bies quipped after last year's TPC: "I shot an 80 and never lost the honor...