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...first round, there was a united hue and cry over the shoddy condition of the course's greens. Although Pleasant Valley is an 18 of true championship caliber, the majority of the greens are in the midst of being aerated. The 18th green is being remodeled so that a makeshift green situated on a steep incline is being used. Any player who hits a shot onto the 18th green is therefore automatically awarded two putts. "It's really unfortunate to have a major tournament decided this way," Crimson coach Bob Donovan said yesterday...
...makeshift golf course was built on the island of Las Palmas, the largest of the volcanic atolls of the Canary Islands that lie in the mid-Atlantic, 1000 miles off the coast of North Africa. It was the first course ever on Spanish territory. Another 12 years went by before golf gained a foothold on the Iberian mainland when the Madrid Polo Golf Club was established where the Castellana race track had once been...
Girls' basketball is an old and proud tradition in Iowa. Youngsters from such towns as Elkader, Creston and Ida Grove have been sinking baskets on makeshift barnyard courts since 1898. The first Iowa girls' championship, in 1919, was contested two decades before the National Collegiate Athletic Association organized its championship tournament for the fellas. Today all but six of the state's 503 high schools field girls' basketball teams...
...among the stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera. Alban Berg's classic 20th century opera Lulu was being mounted for the first time in the company's history, but that was not it: to stagehands one opera is as memorable as another. What held their eyes was a makeshift dressing room right behind the sets. No wonder. The star of the show would regularly dash into it for a series of quick costume changes, some of her garments being scantier than others. As the opening-night audience soon learned, Soprano Carole Farley looks good in anything, but especially scanties...
...mains in the capital, and closed the university, presumably to create temporary shelter for the homeless and wounded. Troops cordoned off major portions of the downtown area to protect people from falling masonry, and possibly to prevent looting. Sports stadiums in the city were converted into makeshift hospitals, and more than 50 American medical students in the country were among those pressed into relief service...