Word: putt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second round he was tied for the lead with 69,76-145. After his third round 74, he was a stroke ahead of the field. Coming to the 18th green on his last round, his long iron shot stopped five feet from the pin. Extraordinarily deliberate, Perkins examined the putt carefully through his steel spectacles. Then he sank it for a birdie 3, a total of 289. It was five strokes better than Bobby Jones had guessed would win the tournament. Still deliberate, Perkins extracted the ball from the cup, gave it to his caddy, entered the locker room, straddled...
...took a nervous five at the loth. At the nth he mistimed his drive and the ball landed in the one clump of grass in an ugly wilderness of hazards called the Himalayas. He recovered for a par and the Prince of Wales watched him sink a 20-ft. putt for a birdie on the 14th. At the 18th he needed a 4 for a 74. He smashed a perfect drive and asked his caddy, Ernest Daniels, "What club?" Caddy Daniels gave him the No. 3 iron. This last crucial shot was straight and safe. Two careful putts gave Sarazen...
When Ouimet and Westland went out to play the finals on the anniversary of Ouimet's victory in 1914, there was a general feeling that Ouimet would win. Ouimet won the first hole, stood 4 up at the turn. He holed a 15-foot putt on the 14th, missed an 8-foot putt on the 15th, holed a 25-foot putt downhill for a half on the 16th, finished the morning round 5 up. In the afternoon, a strong wind quartered the fairways. Westland left his felt hat in the clubhouse and, apparently more at ease, won the 18th...
...Open Champion Billy Burke, modest, claims to have made no hole-in- one. But playing Horton Smith in the 1930 P. G. A. championship, he laid his first shot on the lip of the cup. Smith's putt knocked...
...unknown. Count Apponyi's grandfather alone had defended the piece, but do you know what the men were doing all the time the Count was telling that story? They were saying, 'Why I'd have won that $10 sure if I'd sunk that putt on the third hole...