Word: putt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the drenched, sodden course, they were respectively three and six strokes behind Hagen's score at the ninth hole. On the tenth, Alliss got a birdie 2, followed by four pars. On the fifteenth he got a birdie 3 and on the sixteenth dropped a 15-ft. putt for another 3. He had a par 4 on the seventeenth. On the eighteenth, he and Farrell both needed birdies to tie Hagen. It seemed to be Farrell's turn but his putt for a 3 rimmed the cup and stayed out. Alliss looked at his ball lying...
...second shot into the woods, skimmed his third between two lines of spectators to plump his ball a yard from the cup, made a birdie four. After holding a lead of now one and now two strokes. Hagen dropped the fifteenth and sixteenth, where Alliss sank a 30-ft. putt, and they came to the seventeenth all even. Alliss thereupon sliced his drive to take a par four while Hagen drove straight down the fairway, approached well, quickly sank his putt. The last hole was halved. Hagen's total score: 423; Alliss...
...needed only a 38 on the last nine holes to win. Knowledge of his apparently impregnable position made him nervous. He had a six at the twelfth, a five on the fifteenth. Needing three par-fours now for a tie, he dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily...
...stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from cup. He studied the green, tapped the ball with the air of a man accustomed to miracles, watched it drop for another birdie, another...
...both played beautifully. When they came to the 36th tee, Burke was two strokes ahead. He hit his ap proach too hard and it scampered across the low platform of the green 15 feet beyond the hole. Von Elm's ball went a foot further. He leaned over to putt and then looked up; the whirling of a camera had disturbed him. There was a reverent silence as he tapped his ball, watched it curl slowly toward the cup, and stop, unmiraculously this time, a yard beyond it. Burke, with three putts for a win, signalled to the cameras...