Word: muirfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain. At last year's British Open, he parked his big black Rolls-Royce beside the 18th green at Hoylake, so that he could drive away triumphantly when his day's work was done (he finished sixth). No such liberties were permitted last week at Muirfield, which Scots regard as hallowed ground. In the qualifying round he shot two 69s, to lead the field. The skeptics considered it a fluke. Some crack golfers had struggled in behind him. From the U.S. had come 13 talented men, including former Open Champion Lawson Little and Claude Harmon (winner...
...Next day he was presented to King George VI at the first tee (the first time a reigning monarch had ever witnessed a British golf championship). With his King watching, Cotton smacked a prodigious drive down the fairway. He birdied that first hole. Then he proceeded to tear Muirfield apart-green by green and fairway by fairway. His best round: a blistering 66, a record for the course in a British Open...