Word: oakmont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lost 18 pounds during a championship at Oakmont...
...Thinks Oakmont (Pittsburgh) is the best championship course...
Sirs: The following are extracts from newspaper accounts of the golf classic played at the Oakmont Country Club course this week. . . . "As Armour was about to drive, a woman spectator started one of those noisy motion picture cameras buzzing at his elbow. Tommy stopped his swing at the top . . . asked the woman to observe golfing etiquette . . . but the damage had been done. . . ." "Emmet French put off his funeral until the 15th hole . . . just as he was about to approach, one of those diabolical movie cameras in the hands of some female started to reel . . . his spirit was broken. . . ." Perhaps...
...Oakmont Country Club, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Harry Cooper of British birth and Los Angeles residence had been around the links four times last week in a total of 301 strokes, causing a number of people to go home thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July...
...press of the whole country was concerned with Oakmont. Famed reporters wrote about Watts Gunn, told how much his style resembled that of Jones, his friend, companion, coach; described his nervousness before a gallery, even fabricating a ludicrous story of his attempts to turn off an electric light hinged on a closet door. Young Gunn played the famed Jess Sweetser. His 27 holes were in 2 strokes under par; his approach work was sharpshooting, his putts were as accurate as target pistol-shots, his drive was a cannonade. He beat the onetime amateur champion...