Word: putt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul Weissman dropped a 15-foot putt on the 18th green yesterday to give the varsity golf team a 4 to 3 win over M.I.T. The match, played at the Dedbam Country and Polo Club, was the golfers' first victory of the season, following three losses on the southern trip...
...golf course Samuel Jackson Snead, 37, professes to be afraid of three things: lightning, a downhill putt and Ben Hogan. Last week, as he slouched on to the first tee in the playoff of the $15,000 Los Angeles Open, there was' no lightning-just fog and Ben Hogan...
...Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...
...sank his and Hogan missed. In grim self-reproach, Hogan stayed on the green and practiced the putt again & again -never once making it. That shook the little man whose gimlet glance used to be enough to make rivals break out in hot & cold sweats...
...nine holes. When his strength began to ebb on the 13th, he leaned against a tree to pull himself together. On the 15th, he glared momentarily at what sounded like another movie camera. When he discovered it was only a lawn mower, he calmly lined up a 30-foot putt and sank it. His first-round score was 73, only five strokes off the pace...