Word: putterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Lakes Naval Training Station who filled in were polite but helpless. They had been taught to say "Sir," but they seldom knew which club to haul from the bag. Harvie Ward was bothered least of all by this lack of practiced help. All he really needed was a putter...
...profession, Ward (along with Ken Venturi) just happens to work for a Lincoln-Mercury dealer named Eddie Lowery, who just happens to be a U.S. Golfing Association official. Harvie can afford to spend most of his waking hours on the golf course. In his deft hands the reshafted putter that was his very first golf club has become the hottest in the world...
Last week that putter cooled off a little early in the final round. Then, as Kocsis faded, Harvie's game got better and better. Coming home on the back nine, he fired sub-par golf, overpowered the weary challenger to win 5 and 4. In the long history of the U.S. Amateur, only six other men have won the title twice in succession. Harvie Ward is the first man to turn the trick since Lawson Little last won in 1935. And since he has no intention of turning pro, he is a prime favorite to win again...
...Mostly, the Trumans stay out of sight, but sometimes of an evening Harry can be seen in the backyard in an aluminum lawn chair. Bess Truman (who has a political mind of her own and is an enthusiastic admirer of Stuart Symington-toward whom Harry is cool) likes to putter around in her small garden. The day she came home from Europe she was out watering the lawn...
...links demanded. He one-putted most greens. He never showed a blink of emotion. After he had lost four holes in a row, he came back later to sink a two-foot putt and win. Then he relaxed for an instant. He grabbed his cap and waved his putter aloft in his other hand. "Aye!" he shouted with relief...