Word: putt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hagen's caddie was nearly blown off a green but Hagen sank his putt. A camera clicked when Leo Diegel was putting. He missed by a foot...
...matches were too one-sided to be very exciting, but in the singles both E. B. Murphy '31 and J. H. Ward '30 had to play very carefully for their victories. The match between Ward and Baxter of Holy Cross was especially close, being won by a beautiful putt on the last hole...
...Wethered's drive went straight down the course. So did Perkins's. But Perkins won the first hole and was never down. Several holes were halved, as when Mr. Wethered drove onto a railroad track and Perkins missed a one-yard putt, but in the afternoon on the fourteenth hole it was Mr. Wethered who missed the yard putt, giving Perkins the hole, the match, and the amateur championship. All the U. S. players had been put out in the early rounds...
...people who had been scattered over the club grounds formed into lanes on each side of the fairway. Farrell came to the eighteenth with a two stroke lead, purposely drove over the heads of the crowd into the tenth fairway, pitched his approach to the flag and sank his putt, winning $5,000. Cruickshank got $2,500, Sarazen...
...golf course at Nassau with dour Johnny Farrell, voted the best dressed U. S. golfer. At the ninth hole Sarazen was a stroke behind. At the seventeenth he was all even. He sank his approach shot on the eighteenth for a birdie 2. Farrell's 15-foot putt hit the back of the cup and bounced out. Sarazen, who goes to Nassau yearly for a sunburn, had won the open championship of the Bahama Islands. In St. Augustine, Fla., Glenna Collett, favorite daughter of Providence, R. I., and of Robert Collett, onetime six-day bicycle rider, outdrove Virginia...