Word: prestwick
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...seriously when his father returned to the U. S. In 1927, he took to entering major tournaments and in 1929, at 18, accomplished his first noteworthy feat by beating Johnny Goodman who had just beaten Bobby Jones, in the U.S. Amateur. Last year he won the British Amateur at Prestwick, after the most one-sided final in the tournament's history when, against a frightened Troon carpenter named Wallace, he played 23 holes without losing one. When three months later he won the U.S. Amateur as well, it made Little easily the outstanding amateur golfer in the world. Built...
...chance to do the same thing. Huge, round-faced William Lawson Little learned his golf on a course laid out on the site of a graveyard near Tientsin where his Army-Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been driving the ball 250 to 260 yd. Among other able opponents, he had beaten young Willie Turnesa, who had eliminated the defending champion, George Terry Dunlap...
...summaries: M. I. T. 1935 ELIOT Brosnahan, l.e. r.e., Clapp, Frailey, Bruce Lovering, l.t. r.t., Wood, E., Wood, C. Fletcher, l.g. r.g., Ward Giviada, c. c., Koch Hunt, r.g. l.g., Bloomberg Kennedy, r.t. l.t., Bersey Reid, r.e. l.e., Nickerson Sminsky, q.b. q.b., Maycock Peterson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Keller Prestwick, r.h.b. l.h.b., Mitchell Cooper, f.b. f.b., Ferry RAMBLERS LEVERETT Fox, Bates, l.e. r.e., Howes, Preston Morgan, l.t. r.t., Levin, Oppenheim Hunter, Pemberton, l.g. r.g., Duffield Greenberg, c. c., Beardsley Sillan, Quigley, r.g. l.g., Cary, Woodbury Raoul, Buch, r.t. l.t., Lowenberg Poett, White, r.e. l.e., Bariot, Potter McKey, Gobelein, q.b. q.b., Adams Cowen...
...almost inevitable on the bowl-shaped holes of a course designed and owned by Comedian Joe Cook. Though the majority of golfers have never made a hole-in-one, Tom Washington, professional at the Monomonock Golf Club at Caldwell, N. J. has made 23. One G. Barnard, at the Prestwick St. Cuthbert's Course at Ayr, Scotland, made five holes-in-one between August 1929 and June 1930. Most holes-in-one are made by indifferent golfers assisted greatly by good fortune. Most expert golfers have made one or more holes-in-one. Robert Tyre Jones Jr. has made...