Word: leon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While in the Citrus State, the linksters will be staying in St. Augustine where they will play their daily eighteen over the Ponce de Leon Golf Club. On the way back, the team will detour through South Carolina, where it will play at Hilton Head Island and in Charlestown against the Baptist College of Charlestown...
...linksters will play a series of matches against host team Flagler College. The college's namesake was Henry M. Flagler, who singlehandedly developed much of Florida's east coast. The first golfing oasis he built was none other than Ponce de Leon. Flagler went on to develop what were to become Miami and Palm Beach, where he built what was then the largest resort hotel in America...
When Flagler decided to make St. Augustine into a tourist haven, the man he selected to design the Ponce de Leon course was Donald Ross. The son of a Scottish stonemason. Ross became the professional at the Dornoch course in his native town. A Harvard professor named Robert Wilson, who spent his summers in Dornoch and became enraptured with golf, persuaded him to emigrate to America. Ross arrived in Boston in 1898 with $2 in his pocket. He went on to design over 500 courses, many of which are among the outstanding tests of golf in the country...
Haven't we all heard enough about Muhammad Ali over the years? Your cover should have displayed the. toothless, thrill-of-victory grin of Leon Spinks, not the tired expression...
...favorite. I can appreciate seeing other people suffering, all of them knowing that for the next two weeks it's do or die. You're Bernie Carbo up at bat with two men on and two out. You're Muhammed Ali in the fifteenth round of his bout with Leon Spinks (almost...