Word: putt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...golf-shop. Next morning, ready to leave the tee at 8:15 o'clock, he found the shop still closed. Unperturbed, Golfer Padgham broke in through a window, emerged with his clubs, shot two 71's. watched Scot Jim Adams fail by an inch to hole the putt that would have tied the championship...
...been able to remember something other than the shots he himself had inexcusably wasted-a 3-ft. putt on the 14th, a pitch into a bunker on the 15th, making his last round a 73 instead of the 71 it should have been-Cooper last week would have had food for pleasant recollection as he cast back over his opponents' failures...
...lead all within four strokes of each other. Cooper, nicknamed "Light Horse Harry" because he plays without the exaggerated caution of most of his colleagues, made a 70 which was spectacular because it included an explosion shot that dropped into the cup at the 16th, a 45-ft. putt that did the same thing at the 17th. For his fourth round he had a shaky 73 which was still good enough to make his final score look solid. Dour-faced old Macdonald Smith, who tied with his brother for the Open in 1910 and has narrowly missed winning it more...
...Maureen Orcutt Crews, winner of practically every important U. S. tournament but the national. Playing in a Scotch foursome with Patty (i.e., hitting alternate shots with one ball), Mrs. Vare carried her almost all the way, brought the match to an all-even finish by holing two long putts on the 16th and 17th greens. In her singles match Mrs. Vare conquered British Champion Wanda Morgan 3 and 2. Mrs. Crews not only won her singles but her foursome match as well. Miss Berg, so nervous that she could not even see the hole when she prepared to putt, lost...
...last singles match for a clean-cut victory. This seemed assured when Mrs. Leona Cheney, all square with Miss Anderson on the 18th green, played her approach shot to within an inch of the cup. Miss Anderson,, however, thoroughly at home in the Scottish mist, laid down a putt which slithered 20 ft. across the soaked green, plopped straight into...