Word: muirfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events like these kept the crowds, biggest at a British Open Golf Championship in years, so busy at Muirfield last week that no one paid much attention to a short, stoutish man named Alfred Perry, who kept himself busy winning the tournament. After a brilliant 69 in the first round, a creditable 144 at the halfway point, Perry equalled the Muirfield course record of 67 made by Walter Hagen in winning the Open of 1929. A 75 would have won for Perry after that. Instead, after just missing the putt that would have given him an all-time Open...
Last week on the parklike Muirfield course near Edinburgh, with its gnarled trees and its fairways straight as streets, a U. S. unknown, Leonard Martin, beat last year's unknown winner, Eric Martin-Smith, and then was beaten himself by another unknown. The entire British Walker Cup team was eliminated short of the final round. All the U. S. players, none of them high-rated, were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year...