Word: linkster
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Indeed, there was a cornucopia of calamities in store for the field. One Columbia linkster, who played with Harvard's Spence Fitzgibbons, took a 14 on the wood-lined par five 18th in the morning and an 11 on the same hole in the afternoon. Fitzgibbons fired an opening 80 but billowed to an 86 his second time around...
Rookie golf coach Bob Donovan and his linkster quintet of Alex Vik, Dave Paxton, Spence Fitzgibbons, Tom Edwards and Jim Dales might very well have trumpeted in a new era in Harvard golf yesterday as the Crimson blitzed a 14-school field to capture the ECAC New England area championship by four strokes...
...however, who found the birdies in abundance was Crimson co-captain Tom Yellin. Yellin had three of them on the final four holes en route to a 77. The leading Harvard linkster was not Yellin, though, but senior Peter Zurkow, who had his best day of the spring by shooting a 75, Zurkow was deadly on the greens needing, just 27 putts to complete his round...
There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...