Word: putt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...32nd green. Young Billy Howell and Don Moe, whose 67 at Sandwich in 1920 made a Walker Cup record, had lost five holes out of nine to their 22-year-old opponents, Eric McRuvie and Eric Fiddian, but not until they were 7 up. Howell's short putt for a birdie, after McRuvie had holed a long one, ended the match...
Dour little Bobby Cruickshank played so badly against Al Watrous of Detroit that he was 9 down on the 24th green. Watrous felt sorry for him and conceded a hard six-foot putt for a half. Bobby Cruickshank plays his best golf when he is angry; sympathy makes him furious. He won nine of the next eleven holes, clinched the match on the 41st green by pitching a niblick shot dead and dropping the putt for a 4 while Watrous, on the green in 2, took...
Cruickshank, two couples ahead of Sarazen, hit his shots with almost resentful determination. On the 16th, he missed an 8-ft. putt and needed two pars for his 68. He got them smoothly on the next two holes. Then he walked briskly through the gallery that was waiting to see Sarazen finish and joined Perkins in the locker-room...
...wind?he had made his job much easier but it was still hard to believe that he would win. It became less difficult with every hole. Sarazen had pars for the first five holes of the second nine, a birdie 3 on the hard 15th. When he missed his putt for a 4 on the long 16th Sarazen, unlike Bobby Cruickshank, smiled. He needed only two more pars for a 66. Sixty-six would be a record round for a U. S. Open. It would give him a winning total of 286 and tie Chick Evans' U. S. Open record...
Even Perkins by this time was ready to stop waiting in the locker-room. He joined the crowd that was waiting at the 18th green to watch Sarazen play his 286th shot, an 8-ft. putt. It was a noisy crowd, impatient to cheer Sarazen for equaling Bobby Jones's unique feat of winning the British and U. S. Opens in the same year. The crowd swarmed over the traps, over the edge of the green, past the course marshals until there was only a tight 20-ft. circle around Sarazen and his ball. Perkins tried to look over...