Word: niblick
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...24th green. Watrous felt sorry for him and conceded a hard six-foot putt for a half. Bobby Cruickshank plays his best golf when he is angry; sympathy makes him furious. He won nine of the next eleven holes, clinched the match on the 41st green by pitching a niblick shot dead and dropping the putt for a 4 while Watrous, on the green in 2, took...
...Walter Hagen, who used to have the biggest galleries in golf, had the biggest gallery again for his second round last week. Too proud of his appearance to wear glasses (which he probably needs), Hagen putted badly, drove well, made a left-handed recovery shot with a right-handed niblick, stayed in the running with 148 for the first two rounds. So did his partner, Wiffy Cox, who, when he failed to hole easy putts, threw away his ball and then his putter. Swart, cocky little Gene Sarazen, back from winning the British Open with a record 283, started badly...
...speaking to her opponents, wore a long rabbit's foot attached to her belt. Miss Wilson carried a shooting stick and sat on it, examining her man-sized shoes, while Mrs. Cheney played her shots. Good rolling approaches to greens that were too small and fast for niblick shots saved Mrs. Cheney three holes on the out nine; but Miss Wilson was outdriving her by 50 yards on nearly every hole. On the 14th, already one down, Mrs. Cheney dubbed a brassie and lost the hole. When she dubbed another on the 16th, it cost her the hole...
...hole lead on George Von Elm before the match was postponed at the 18th. Next day the best Von Elm could do was to hold his own until the 31st, when Cox laid, him a stymie two inches from the cup. Von Elm used his niblick, missed, and Cox's par 5 won the match...
...thunderstorm, the British Ryder Cup team lost three out of four two-ball foursomes. Next day, Gene Sarazen kept his trousers pressed and his shirt buttoned up, beat Fred Robson, seven up. He appalled Robson on the fourth hole by driving his ball into a refreshment stand, playing a niblick shot off the floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute, who placed fourth in the Open two years ago; he gave the youngest British player, 25-year...