Word: parred
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...golfers circumnavigated the 6647-yard, par-70 layout in 674 strokes for the two-day, 36-hole New England NCAA Qualifying Tournament. They finished sixth in the 12-school field. Yale, which went into Friday's round with a 13-stroke lead, continued to chart a straight and narrow course over its home 18, winning the tourney with a 636 team aggregate. The Elis thus earned a berth in the NCAAs, which will be held at Eugene, Ore., this June...
Teravainen swashbuckled his way to five birdies on Friday, his first coming on the second hole, and his last on the par-five 16th. His birdies included the ninth, one of the most famous and breathtaking par threes in the world. The hole, which measured more than 230 yards on Friday, requires a sheer carry over water from the elevated crows-nest tee to a double decker green. Teravainen whaled on a two-iron and sunk his "oceanliner," one of those long, undulating putts, for his birdie...
Charles Blair MacDonald, one of the pioneer American golf course architects, who designed the Yale 18 back in the '20s, was a man who believed in making a golfer sweat to earn his par. Yesterday, pars were few and far between...
...only two players on the leader board for the Crimson were Glenn Alexander and Dave Paxton, who wobbled in with a pair of 82s. Alexander took a quadruple bogey on the par-three ninth, a tribute to the fiendish propensities of C.B. MacDonald. This famed hole requires a long carry of Greis Pond, to a spit of green bisected by a moraine. Alexander tried to putt out of the gully, but didn't stroke it quite hard enough and his ball rolled right back down...
...Par was an 85 out there," said coach Bob Donovan. "Some of the adverse conditions we've played under this spring finally helped us because we handled the winds better than the other teams...