Word: niblick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm of a country jingle. Inexperienced. Miss Fishwick's efforts to surpass herself kept a niblick in her hand a good deal of the time. Consistently down the middle. Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath took the match, the title...
...hair, Jones wore a white sweater, grey knickers, grey socks, black & white shoes. . . . His huge bag is made of leather. Attached to it was a blue plaid umbrella. The bag contained three woods (driver, spoon, brassie) and nine rusty irons. A tenth iron, shiny and new, was the mashie-niblick with which he pitched his 293rd stroke...
...discovered a new recreational malady - wrenched backs in men between 35 and 45 - and he hastened last week to notify the profession. Quick swings of the polo mallet twist stiffened spines. In golf the cause is the "brisk, snappy twist of the trunk" for mashie and especially niblick shots...
...blond man who used to caddy at the country club in Salt Lake City. When he was 15 he won the Utah States championship, playing largely with a mashie-niblick, the only club he really understood. Since then he has often been a finalist, often a local champion. Two years ago in the national finals at Merion, Jones beat...
Western Amateur. A golfing sphere came to rest between the twin trunks of a tree about 60 feet from the ninth green. Frank Dolp, of Portland, Ore., turned his back to the pin, played a niblick shot between his legs, saw his ball stop 14 feet from the cup. He holed out in two, while Harrison R. ("Jimmie") Johnston, winner of the qualifying medal with a brilliant 141 and favorite to capture the Western Amateur title at St. Paul, missed a two-foot putt. On the 18th green Johnston's putter again faltered. He missed a six-footer...