Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eliot golfers yesterday took the house championship title by easily defeating their Winthrop and Adams opponents in a triangular playoff. Each man played individual matches with his two antagonists...
...grave, austere confidence which Van Belle lacked. It was this lack rather than the fact that Van Belle was playing in the U. S. for the first time, or the fact that he had often played Poensgen before and usually lost, that gave Poensgen an advantage in the playoff...
...Francis thought he would have no chance against Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, but he entered, and played so well that he finished in a tie with those two great Englishmen. ... I will never forget the playoff...
Ties in the Open are decided by a 36-hole playoff. When Burke and Von Elm came to the 36th hole the next day, Burke needed a four for a 149; Von Elm, a stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from...
...prize for a four-ball team golf tournament at Miami. In a play-off against Johnny Farrell and Gene Sarazen, Macfarlane played the first nine holes in 30, six under par, sinking five first putts. Lanky, hatchet-faced Scot Macfarlane distinguished himself once before in a playoff, when he beat Bobby Jones for the 1925 Open...