Word: putt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even. At the 35th, Louise was one up. At the 36th, Louise's tee shot faded into the rough and her father was half afraid to look. Calmly she selected a club, wiggled once and sent a tremendous wood shot to the green. Then she curved a putt around a partial stymie and the ball dropped into the cup. That gave her the match and the title which Babe Didrikson Zaharias vacated to become a pro. Proud Johnny Suggs dashed onto the green and gave husky Louise a big kiss. She had played it like a big-leaguer...
...restful to putt, when the strains of a band Announced a thé dansant was on at the Grand.... How lightly municipal, meltingly tarr'd Were the walks through the Lawns by the Queen's Promenade...
Last week at the St. Louis Country Club, Sammy Snead trudged onto the final green. Carefully, he plucked a leaf from the sod, squatted to survey the roll of the green. It was the U.S. Open Championship again, and he had to sink an 18-foot putt to get into the playoff match. Sammy stroked the ball, and a gallery of 3,000 stood in awed silence as it rolled up to the cup, plunked in. Then the gallery roared. Sammy puckered his lips and grinned. This time things were going to be different...
...shot a par. That gave him a two-under-par 282 for the 72 holes; he went off nervously to the lockerroom for a bottle of beer. He had the lead but it was not much of one. Twenty minutes later, Oldtimer Sam Snead sank his last putt for a birdie, to tie Worsham...
...Last Putt. Sammy and Lew fought out their tie at medal play this week. They went into the last hole even. Both had good drives of about 260 yards. Both pitched up to within 25 feet of the pin, though Worsham was still off the green. It looked like another playoff unless either sank a long one. Worsham shot first; his ball hit the right edge of the cup and bounced out. Snead's putt was short. Officials got out a tape measure: Snead's ball was 30½ inches away; Worsham's was 29½ inches...