Word: putt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Walker Cup team but one were eliminated, as were three former titleholders, Jess Sweetser, Max Marston, Harrison Johnston. Perry Hall, 37-year-old Drexel & Co. partner who first played golf six years ago, tied for third at 145. In 36 holes he had no 3-putt greens...
While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...
...cracked under the tension. He pitched over the 28th green, came back too strong and missed his putt. Tempered in years of tournament playing, Somerville braced for a strong finish. What he needed was par golf and he played it. He stolidly took the 28th and the next two holes while Goodman, control gone, took 1 over pars for each. The next three they halved. At the 34th green Somerville holed out in one putt for a birdie 3. Goodman, short on his second shot, had to pitch on the green, take a brave par 4. They halved the next...
...stolid Johnny Golden of Noroton, Conn. They were never more than a hole apart. Golden was i up at noon. He was still up at the 35th, but Hagen birdied the hole to square the match. They halved every hole till the 43rd, where Golden dropped a ten-foot putt for the birdie 4 that...
...looked as though slim Tom Creavy, last year's winner, would play Olin Dutra for the title but Creavy, when he had squared his semi-final match with Frank Walsh of Chicago on the 36th, after being 9 down in the morning round, missed an important five-foot putt on the 38th. Dutra, who had coasted through the tournament, played Walsh in the finals. In California, where he and his brother learned to play on an improvised course between two trees in a meadow, Dutra is known for his steadiness, his diligence on practice tees. His short swing is especially...