Word: mehlhorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behind rolling clouds. Only a Scot could enjoy golf on a day like this, but Jurado played quietly on. Most of the Americans had turned their scores in. Tommy Armour was out, eliminated on the second day after a hopeless round, but Barnes was in the running, so were Mehlhorn and Sarazen, and as for Hagen, he was leading and looked like a certain winner-Hagen, who had been acting in the movies all winter, who had given his clubs away and decided only a few months before to quit golf, Hagen, who had been beaten 18 up by Archie...
...Angeles residence had been around the links four times last week in a total of 301 strokes, causing a number of people to go home thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July 19), had been consistent but not brilliant. Harrison ("Jimmie") Johnston, the amateur who worried the professionals for half...
...Other onetime caddies: Gene Sarazen, William Mehlhorn, Charles ("Chick") Evans...
...Atlanta, Ga., journeyed dapper Walter Hagen, noisy Bill Mehlhorn, dour Bobbie Cruickshank, swart Gene Sarazen, with many another expert, professional wielder of wood and iron. They were to compete in the Southern Open Golf Tournament, suddenly of great importance because of record purse. They hoped with fervor for money; they also hoped for the almost unattainable honor of beating Bobbie Jones, amateur...
...seconds passed while Cruickshank aimed some more. It was to be an important, lucrative putt. As Cruickshank drew back his putter, a horrid dissonance shattered the atmosphere. From the branches of a nearby tree came thick words: "What do you know about machinery?" It was the voice of Will Mehlhorn, another contestant who had finished (out of the money), perched himself on a lofty limb, there to watch the play of his more fortunate fellows. He later explained that he was sorry, had not been addressing Cruickshank. But Cruickshank, unnerved, distracted, missed his first putt for a win, his second...