Word: putters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with the help of a rusty old gooseneck putter, Bobby Locke collected his $5,000 guarantee and $2,000 besides. Other golfers-like Ben Hogan and Jimmy Demaret-refused to indulge in such Tam O' Shanter shenanigans as wearing numbers on their backs, but since there was money in it, Locke was willing. After 72 holes, he was twelve strokes under par and in a first-place tie with Ed ("Porky") Oliver. He went on to beat Oliver in a playoff, and to become the third biggest money winner on this year's pro golf circuit...
...their sub-par pace. Golfers who still had a chance to win drifted into the clubhouse, bit into sandwiches, tried to wash them down with a glass of milk. Some ate sugar lumps to steady nerves. The tension infected the crowd: the grapevine spread that someone's putter was getting hot, and the crowd drifted from threesome to threesome looking for the player who would fight...
Said Willie deprecatingly: "It's just a question of who putts. I did it today." He did it with his mother-in-law's putter: his own, a center-shafted model, is illegal on British courses...
Unlike the current crop of U.S. pros, who vary from businesslike to grim, Locke whistled while he walked. He had time for such small amenities as replacing divots, and applauding when an opponent sank a long putt. When his own steady putter went haywire last week on the 17th green of the $15,000 tourney at Fort Worth, he grinned and scolded himself: "Very shaky, very shaky playing indeed...
...League of Nations days, scientists who visited Geneva knew her as a plump, black-eyed Russian physiologist named Lina Stern. She loved to putter in her laboratory all day and dance all night. A brilliant scientist, Lina was already a full professor (of physiological chemistry) at the University of Geneva. Friend of many a globe-trotting academician, she spoke fluent Russian, French and English. In 1925, fun-loving Physiologist Stern decided to go to Moscow, where, she said, she could pursue science in "a society built on scientific principles...