Word: putt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business and a family, Robert A. Gardner, National Amateur Golf Champion in 1909 and 1915, is little heard of these days in the wider golfing circles. Last week, at his home club, Onwentsia (Lake Forest, Ill.) he clenched his putter firmly, ended a sweltering match with a 35-ft. putt that beat Tom Frainey, Chicago public-links player, 3 and 2 for the Chicago District Championship, held, last year as well, by Gardner...
...view of the thousands of spectators that jostled in the rough and back of the bunkers. Picking his way from the tee, his mashie still in his hand, J. H. Taylor, five times (1894, '95, 1900, '09, '13) British Open Champion, came to 'the green, watched his partner putt," received the snowy ball?holed in one? from his middle-aged caddy, whose grin was to say: "Aye, a bonny shot. An ye'll be gi'en me a bottle o' whuskey the nicht...
...Coming in at the finish, he holed eight consecutive fours, made a 74 to find himself a winner over Taylor, Smith, Ray, Mitchell and even steady Archie Compston of North Manchester, with a score of 300 even. Ray and Compston, tied for second with 301, each missed a putt that would have" tied Barnes at the seventy-second green...
They played their extra 18 holes; at the last green, Jones holed a 75. Six feet away from the cup lay Macfarlane's ball, in 74. Adjusting his schoolmaster spectacles, assuring Jones that 'he could never go another hole, he purled the putt in. The, tie still stood...
...such shots as Joyce Wethered's few men could have launched. She was never off the course. She was 37 to the turn! At that, the American got 38 and was only 1 down when the gruelling told and she began to cut drives, to foozle putts. Miss Wethered finished off 4 up and 3 to play, and spent the afternoon trouncing her 1923 conqueror, Doris Chambers. To her father, who concerns himself deeply in her success, Miss Collett cabled (truthfully) : "Joyce played unbeatable golf." Of Miss Wethered's play up to the finals, able critics said : "Incredible...