Word: putts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Putt-Putts...
...second day, Horton Smith rolled in a 15-foot putt for a birdie on the second, crashed out an eagle 3 on the ninth for a 33 out, came back in 37 to lead the field with a total of 142. Jones's 73 on this round might easily have been several strokes better or worse. He took a six on one par four hole, and on the ninth, playing his second to the green, he whizzed a low shot into the pond. Going fast, the ball ricocheted, ran up the bank. Jones laid his next dead for a birdie...
...round average in U. S. Opens is 73?a half-stroke less than his second-round average, a stroke less than his first-round average, three strokes less than his fourth-round average. That third morning at Interlachen was a little cooler. Jones started by sinking a ten-foot putt on the first green, played par golf to the fourth where he took the first of six birdies. His gallery, stirred to an intent, incredulous tension, saw that he might have a 66 for the round, but he drove into a trap at the seventeenth and sliced his drive into...
...Lighthorse Harry Cooper, Jones wavered after lunch, barely stayed safe. He frightened his followers by starting the last nine 4 5 5 5?two over par. On the seventeenth he lost his ball in the water hazard. Then he finished as a champion should?holed a 40-ft. uphill putt on the last green for a birdie it seemed sure he would need...
MacDonald Smith was burning up the course back of Jones. At the eleventh tee he had made up four of the seven strokes he had been behind at lunch. After Jones's great last putt, Smith needed two birdies and six pars to tie and he fell only two shots short of doing...