Word: putt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only by an overbold attempt to gobble a long putt on the last green. The 294 was still best; Turnesa waited...
...blond tackle of Tulane University's noted football team, last week at the Merion Cricket Club duplicated the record of Dexter Cummings by winning the intercollegiate golf championship for the second successive year. Spectators applauded when Lamprecht stopped Paul Haviland of Yale in the morning round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Some spectators were amazed when Haviland was eliminated in the afternoon round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Other blase watchers recalled that last year at Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means of three consecutive...
...They were disappointed. The drama in any medal tournament is the drama of endurance; a man's opponent is the game of golf. If Hagen had been playing a match with Jones, then niblicks would have spurted epigrams, drivers snapped dialogue, sparkling marivaudage would have clicked in every putt. . . . But Jones was not playing Hagen. He was playing golf...
...shirt invited breezes. He smiled. At the seventy-first tee he lay on the ground for a brief rest, then rose, sent a perfect drive down the fairway. Mitchell sliced his iron shot. Hagen, standing blandly by, watched him make a hopeless try for recovery, then holed his own putt and turned to oblige the camera men. He had won, at 2 up and 1 to go, the (unofficial) professional championship of the world...
...sunk that putt, England would have won, for Roger Wethered had beaten Francis Ouimet, Robert Harris had outdriven and outthought Jesse Guilford, and E. F. Storey had taken the measure of the U. S. enfant terrible, Roland Mackenzie. But Mr. Hezlet of England did not know what his team mates were doing; even if he had known, the recognition of what depended on his putt could only have made him more careful. He was too careful as it was. The ball stopped two inches from the hole; the Walker Cup stayed...