Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handicappers take heart! Don't yawn with ennui as drive after drive soars 275 yds. down the middle of the fairway. Don't sigh as your approaches bite dead in the center of the green, and your putts plunk gently into the cup. Live a little. "Amaze your friends. Open a whole new golfing world," advises Paul Hahn in a new book, Trouble Shots (McKay...
...That plunk in the cup just starts the fun. First, the lucky golfer has to buy drinks for everybody in the clubhouse. (If he has been thoughtful enough to buy hole-in-one insurance at $2 a year, the insurance company will pick up the tab.) The newspapers run the story; gifts start arriving in the mail. In the old days, it was a case of Wheaties or a carton of Life Savers. Nowadays there are certificates, medals, highball glasses, ashtrays, barometers. The earth-shaking event is duly recorded by Golf Digest, which gives away clothes and golfing trips...
...action of the play is a state senatorial inquiry into a case of child buying, in which a parade of witnesses relate their roles in the affair. This woe fully static device comes down to describing the play that isn't there. Along the way, Shyre and Hersey plunk paper bullets into pre-perforated targets-the jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that "some...
...stepped up to putt, paused and asked: 'What state are we in?' 'We're in Pennsylvania,' I said. 'All right,' said Ara. Then I'm the greatest putter in the state of Pennsylvania.' He swung and, sure enough, the ball went over four or five breaks plunk into...
Those Foolish Fellows. What makes Mickey so good? Might, mainly. Most lady pros are plunk-plunk, soft, accurate hitters. Mickey is strictly wham-wham, the longest driver in the ladies' game today, perhaps the longest ever. "She hits the ball farther than Babe Zaharias ever did," says Veteran Pro Louise Suggs, "and she gets her distance entirely in the air. Babe got hers entirely on the roll." Mickey averages 225 yds. off the tee, often gets the ball out 270 yds.: with the help of a 40-m.p.h. wind in the Dallas Civitan Open in 1960, she actually overdrove...