Word: putt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern equivalent of the Southern and Western opens, fell to Bob MacDonald, of Chicago. Though virtually all the professionals that gathered for the National championship the week previous at Inwood drove off for a try at the Metropolitan title, little spectacular golf was played. By missing a one-yard putt on the home green MacDonald ran into a tie with Jim Barnes of Pelham, at 295. In the play-off Mac-Donald shot 70, three under par, and defeated Barnes by ten strokes. MacDonald won the same title in 1921, and lost it in a similar play...
Revealing in the final 18 holes what was probably the greatest golf ever played by a woman, Alexa Stirling took the Metropolitan Championship (New York) from Mrs. G. M. Heckscher, 11 and 9. Miss Stirling went out in 36, even par, and sank her final putt coming home for a 40. The 76 broke Glenna Collett's record for the difficult Westchester-Biltmore course by two strokes. Her brilliance indicates that she is ready to assume again the American championship, which she laid at the feet of Miss Hollins three years...
...Americans were forced to take five matches in the final seven (two- ball) to win. The startling uphill play of Francis Ouimet, Boston, against Roger Wethered, British Amateur Champion, was the brilliant feature of the tournament. Three down to Wethered at the turn, Ouimet holed a curling 18-foot putt against a dead stymie to square his match on the final green...
With the point score all even Dr. 0. F. Willing, of Portland, sank an eight-foot putt on the home hole to win the final match and bring the cup to America...
John D. Rockefeller: "When I recovered from my recent illness, I went out and played golf. Motion picture men photographed me holing a 14-foot putt. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst Editor, commented: 'Alexander, addressing his dissatisfied generals, held up his purple cloak, saying that was all that he had got out of it. Mr. Rockefeller might hold up his little golf ball and putter, saying: "This is about...