Word: holing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...match came down to Arnold playing the 18th hole after the sun had set. Arnold's ball refused to stop on the green as he pitched it from front to back. He finally holed a putt for a triple-bogey seven that clinched the victory...
Even a beginner compiling a golf score will realize that the scoring of the above was no easy task. It was a rare hole indeed when Fitzgibbons played less than three balls. He is more in his element tinkering with the loops and gyrations that must be meshing perfectly for him to strike the ball "pure" than tallying accurate scores...
Although it may not be apparent, "S" carded a courageous 11 on the redoubtable seventh, a hole replete with a meandering fairway and a menacing water hazard. Reaching the green of the par five eighth was an arduous business, and he found a greenside bunker. After unleashing a frenzied rain of blows, his ball had not budged. "S" suddenly lost the will to go on, so his incomplete scorecard will be preserved for posterity as a noble fragment...
With his short game clicking, Vik emerged relatively unscathed with his lone double bogey coming on the 175-yard par three 16th. He managed a par on the first hole without ever playing off of the fair-way, which is really a 455-yard strip of what was once a polo field adjacent to the Country Club's defunct race track...
...yard 11th hole, in which a rocky gully traverses the fairway, was transformed into a miniature wind tunnel yesterday. Unable to keep from swaying at address, Vik took a swat at his ball while striding up to it. The result was a smoother hook that carried some 50 yards. After that, Vik hit his driver off the fairway followed by a 3-wood, but was still shy of the green...