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Slotline finally took off in 1982, when Duclos came out with his exaggerated version of the heel-and-toe-weighted putter. Duclos claimed he had measured his putter's superior performance and ran newspaper ads under the headline PUTT 2.5 TIMES BETTER. Since then Slotline has sold more than 400,000 putters. Last year the company introduced heel-and-toe-weighted irons and sold 12,000 sets in 15 months; 6,000 sets of its new metal woods were sold in seven months. In June, Slotline began construction of a new factory in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf...
Tour golfers are forever calling penalties on themselves for imperceptible violations. Preparing to putt at the past Westchester Classic, Raymond Floyd noticed the ball move microscopically and docked himself a stroke. He fell out of contention, but the shot still meant $4,500 in lost pay. Twice, that same situation has cost Tom Kite tournament championships and a total of $59,800. Such scrupulous honesty is the rule in professional golf, though there are exceptions. Using her trusty antitrust iron, Jane Blalock once had to go to court to fight off a lynch mob of fellow competitors who wanted...
...really get excited." Over the next week the word spread through Fostoria like prairie fire. One night there were twelve cars out there next to the golf course; another night 20. Soon there were 150. One witness reported it took an hour and a half to drive from Putt 'N' Pond Park to the soybean tank, a distance of two miles. Rita called a photographer named Andy Duran at the paper, the Review Times, and asked for a picture, but Andy said he was busy. Privately, he thought the Jesus affair was nonsense. "Andy did what I would have done...
...lost the championship by a stroke. So did two others. Had Dave Barr, an ample Canadian, only believed he could have won the Open, he probably would have. South African Denis Watson's eternal miscalculation was % in loitering longer than the allotted ten seconds over a lip-hanging putt. The ball vindicated him by sinking out of sight within 35 seconds, though Watson was penalized the two-stroke margin of his despair...
After work, the golfer can dispense with a lot of equipment by telescoping Hammacher Schlemmer's 17-In-One-Golf Club ($69.50) out of the briefcase. The . rotating head of the 1-lb. device can be set to iron, wedge and putt positions by manipulating a set of interlocking gears...