Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money doing news," groused NBC News President Richard Wald, after losing one of his network's indisputable stars. "It's a system that belongs to entertainment, not news." Said a top CBS executive: "For 20 years we've struggled to have broadcast news treated on a par with print news. So when ABC pays someone that kind of money it makes us all look like Hollywood. I can just hear people saying, 'Isn't that typical of television...
Senior Bobby Thompson carded a 79 while playing number two to make him Harvard's medalist. Thompson's clutch holes were the seventh and the par three 160-yard seventeenth. On the seventh, a par four, he split the narrow fairway with a 4-wood off the tee and gouged a wedge that skipped up against the flagstick. He bladed an eight iron for his second ringer of the day but missed the birdie putt...
Bartlett supplies a stirring commentary on his 72-hole stint with Hite in the pro tour limelight. "The first day she started great guns. I remember she eagled the ninth for a 36. On the tenth she just crushed her drive." Hite hove her second shot on the par five dogleg out of bounds and ballooned to a 45 on the back nine. "She finished 25th or 30th," Bartlett adds by way of a post mortem...
...concentration problems as his scorecard showed. After parring the first hole, he double-bogeyed the easy par four second. "I was in a daze," Vik said. The Norwegian parred the next three holes but then three putted from eight feet on the sixth for another bogey. Vik also bogeyed the ninth and eleventh holes to go five over with six holes remaining. "At that point I realized I was really playing stupid," Vik said. From that point to the 18th he was one under par but it was too late as deBettencourt won by a stroke...
...yard sixteenth, McNealy pulled out a three wood for his second shot but still didn't have enough stick to reach the uphill par four facing into the wind. The sixteenth also exacted a double bogey from Vik, who drove his tee shot into the woods. Vik came right back, flipping a pitch shot that slithered to within one foot of the pin. He flubbed the rushed putt and had to settle...