Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laakee," and the rain pouring down harder and harder, and the pot-bellied old schlock-slingers who had never left the press tent desperately trying to find out just who the hell he was and what the hell he was saying when he lapsed into Spanish, and Killer taking full credit for winning the tournament...
...told him every club to hit every day, and kept talkin to him all the time--you gotta talk to him or he goes loco," Killer was saying. "The 17th was the crucial one. We went off the tee with a four-wood--it's really a two-iron shot, but Victor can't hit a two-iron--then we went with a little seven iron from 160 yards out on the slope. I knew when we made that six-footer for par we were all right. But we had to go with a driver...
...rain was falling even harder, and thousands of water-logged golf fans who had neither seen nor heard of Regalado 30 minutes earlier were cheering wildly, as if he had at last consummated Montezuma's revenge. My prediction had been correct: the 17th had been the decisive hole. But Killer had picked the winner--and he had salvaged my own personal victory over the schlock-slingers in the press tent by giving me his exclusive account of the action...
...carried that bag good this week, I won it all for him," Killer kept saying as the rain poured down still harder, and Victor blithered on in pigeon English, and the fat old schlock-slingers drooled over the very schlock-up-able fact that he was going to give all his prize money (minus a cool $3000 for Killer) to his sixty-year-old grandmother in Chicago. Then two of the schlock-slingers brightened up to who Killer was, and started pumping him with questions. Finally, they got around to asking him his name...
...Killer," he replied...