Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicklaus fils is already down to a five handicap, but as he watched his father practice, he promised to hold his tongue. "Believe me," he said, "I would never tell him what club to use." Out on the course, however, that promise proved easier to break than par: "When I asked for a six-iron," reported Jack Sr., "he answered 'I'd play a seven.' " Nicklaus was pleased with his son's performance, although not with his own-and with reason. He finished six strokes behind Johnny Miller, who won his first British open...
Birkdale, in the mold of Prestwick where the first Open was held, is an unkempt links-land course whittled by the elements, running along the railway line between Liverpool and Southport. The dunes that straddle the fairways and perpetually tearing winds along with four par fives in the last six holes exact the utmost of poise, resilience and control from the field...
...encouraged to assume, should be placed only a few points to the right of pit vipers on the lovability scale. In such a context, Richard Monckton's somber and tormented meanness, his attempts to subvert the FBI and the CIA and demolish all political enemies seem par for the presidential curse-and almost human...
Captain Scott McNealy rose to the occasion with his best outing of the season, registering rounds of 76 and 79. McNealy's 76 was the product of birdies on all four of Agawam's par fives, as his fairway woods touched down on the flagstick like a butterfly with sore feet...
Leading the Harvard scoring parade was Alex Vik, whose 74 score would have been considerably improved if he had been able to find his touch on the greens. Captain Scott McNealy chipped in with 76, thanks, for the most part, to birdies on each of the three par fives...