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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prestwick is moodier still, especially without caddies. This is the original Open course, drafted for the first twelve championships, not re-elected since 1872. But for occasionally happening on a green, one would never suspect Prestwick was a golf course. It looks like the Ponderosa. A par-four hole is overdriven from the tee, while a par-three one is unreachable from anywhere. Most of the holes are par fives. The sole compensation for being lost and confused all day is a blind 3-iron shot at the 201-yd. fifth hole, aimed high over a scrubby embankment but pushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Misty Birthplace of Golf | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...every picture was a careful symmetry of light and dark. "The negative is the score," he said. "The print is the performance." By the mid-'60s, Adams had virtually ceased taking photographs for public consumption, concentrating instead on making prints of earlier works (the performance grew darker and moodier) and updating his 40 books on photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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