Word: putt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good-natured Ed ("Porky") Oliver, of Seattle, who is heavy on the hoof but steady on the fairway. In the final round, Porky overtook Hogan and at one point was two strokes ahead; then he dropped back. On the last hole, Hogan needed to sink a 20-ft. putt to salt down the $2,500 first prize. But his putt curled away from...
...last hole of the tourney, he flubbed a shot from a bunker-just like a Sunday duffer. But on the next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...
...Short Putt. In North College Hill, Ohio, Charles A. Lasure, 82, rested overnight after a 1,000-mile junket from Ardmore, Okla., then started back the way he had come: by motor scooter...
...took a hole-in-one by Line Kinnicutt and a four-foot putt on the eighteenth hole by Sam Seager to put the wraps on a 28-game winning streak that Princeton boasted up to last Friday. Coach Barclay's golf team sunk both to win their first game in the sectional playoffs for Northeastern Amateur Championships...
...read greens: "If you can see a shine on the green ... it means that you are putting down the grain of the green. The ball is going to travel very fast . . . When I see a shine on the grass on the right side in lining up a putt, I play to the right even if I don't see a break in the green in that direction ... I know the grain is running from right to left." CJ "When playing mountain courses, remember that putts will always break away from the mountains. That is true, even...