Word: niblick
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...Mysterious Montague descended abruptly from fiction to reality. At Los Angeles' Lakeside Club, freelance Photographer Bob Wallace trailed him onto the golf course, hid in a clump of bushes, snapped him twice with a telephoto lens, as he was putting and as he was marching down the fairway, niblick in hand. After taking the pictures, Photographer Wallace handed the film to his brother, popped a dummy magazine into his camera. Golfer Montague, who had heard the shutter click, ran over to Photographer Wallace, took the camera away, removed the dummy magazine, destroyed...
...obligation to the public instead of the old idea of simply hitting the ball. ... I shall do better when I get acquainted with your greens. . . . The sand in these bunkers is heavier and coarser grained than the sort I am accustomed to at home. ... I fancy a heavier niblick might help...
...Detroit, arrived in Philadelphia with a box of pills and the intention of watching the tournament instead of playing in it. His brother Mortie persuaded him not to withdraw his entry. With a caddy who had dreamed that he would win, Dutra started out, ambling slowly, using his niblick as a walking stick...
...interviewer who asked him what he thought of Merion, Craig Wood gave an airy definition: "A mashie-niblick course." On his second round, he was disqualified for playing the wrong ball, failing to take a two stroke penalty when he found the right...
...than any other in the world. Into Swilken Burn last week Craig Wood played his second shot of the playoff, a shot which, more than any other, helped decide the championship. Rather than waste a stroke, he took off his shoes and stockings, waded into the water with his niblick and played the ball. It landed near the edge of the green but Wood took three to hole out. Still rattled, he had another six at the second hole and found himself four down to Shute...