Word: putt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compleat Angler. No old tale or new notion was unworthy of Aubrey's attention-for "these curiosities," he said, "would be quite forgotten, did not such idle fellows as me putt them downe." From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh...
...using a putter borrowed from Ben Hogan, who was still convalescing from a near-fatal auto crash. On the last green Sam eyed a tricky, 20-foot putt, then stepped up and tapped the ball with Hogan's putter. It rolled straight.and true for a birdie, a 67 for the round, 282 for the tournament. Said Sammy: "Who was the bum that started the story about I can't putt?" At 36, after ten tries, Sam Snead had finally won a Masters. It was his third tournament victory in a month...
...Virginia game started sunny, but the jinx brought rain before it ended. Bob Matson and Herb Mee scored for the varsity, Mee winning on a 15-foot putt on the twenty-first hole. Georgetown was another windy match, with Matson and Hubbell scoring the Crimson's points...
...players on the peek-preview team have a good chance of staying on all spring. They include Bill Rickenbacker, junior champion of New York City; Hugh Nawn, number-one man on the '51 freshman team; and Sam Seagar, who beat Princeton last year on a 12-foot putt after dark...
...fairway. His next, a strong approach shot headed for the back-of-beyond, hit a second spectator and dropped on the edge of the green. Demaret took a par for the hole and gained another stroke on Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit: "I feel like a race horse beating Citation...