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...bamboo poles, biodegradable tees, and ammonium chloride balls allow the winter golfer to frolic in the snow in relative comfort. Such devices, of course, might alarm golfing traditionalists. Died in the wool golfers would be likely to concur with the judgment of "Firey," the legendary Musselburgh caddie, who when the first golf bag was introduced in Scotland in 1888 remarked that it was "nae gowf...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...they have only been able to do on their native heath. After all, who could blame a British golfer if upon seeing the misty winds careening along the fairways that Willie Dunn laid out on Shinnecock's hills on Long Island, he mistook it for the grizzled links at Musselburgh in the Midlothian, where Dunn was born over a century...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Walker Cup Returns to Shinnecock | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

Princess Elizabeth, achasing the wild deer and following the roe in the glens around Musselburgh, Scotland, bagged a twelve-point stag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Britons seemed willing to accept the regimentation that introduced their planned future. But if they were to keep their freedom out on loan, they would want results, and before 1950. In a speech at Musselburgh, Scotland, Clement Attlee summed up his Party's aims: "To build a new society ... of peace, freedom and social justice." If it built all that, Labor might well catapult old, tired Britain into a new and thrilling place in the sun. If it failed, Britain would catapult Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the New Society | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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