Word: parred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the team plays in the 36-hole Greater Boston Tournament, and it has a chance to win if the entire ladder plays up to par...
Captain John Livingood nipped Chuck Gamble, runner-up in last year's New England Intercollegiates, one up by sinking a twenty-footer for a winning par as Gamble bogied the eighteenth...
...feet of the stick while Livingood pulled his shot slightly to the left fringe of the green about forty feet away. Livingood then took three to get down when his tricky four foot second putt failed to drop, and Seckel holed out in two for a match-winning par. Livingood, however, over-whelmed his Brown opponent...
...Lost. But on the final day, Palmer's plans went abruptly awry. "I played so bad," he groused later, "that I couldn't have made the Podunk Open." Fretting, frowning, fuming, he shot a Sunday golfer's 39 on the par-36 front nine, made mistakes that would make a duffer blush: a smothered drive that carried only 100 yds. off the tee, a No. 5 iron that smacked into a tree and caromed back over his head. Before he finished the round he had dropped to third place, behind Dow Finsterwald and Player. To his caddie...
...mercurial Arnold Palmer, that one break was enough: over the next six holes, while Player watched helplessly, he rattled off four more birdies. Final scores: Palmer, a four-under-par 68; Player, 71. "Arnie's won this thing three times now,"* said ex-Champion Player. "There's no good reason why he shouldn't win another three. Who's going to beat...