Word: putts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birdied the next hole, a 492-yard par five, by dropping a short putt after a fine wedge shot. He made a routine par on the wide-open 18th and then moved on to the first...
Brown had beaten Penn, 5-2, and barely lost to Yale, a traditional Ivy power. Yet, if Tom Wynne's opponent at number six had not sunk a long putt on the 18th hole to win 1-up, the Harvard team would have blanked the Bruins. Of the other Crimson golfers, only Roger Wales (seven) had difficulty, winning in a 19th hole play...
...blazer belonged to Brewer. On the last day, trailing Bobby Nichols, Julius Boros and Bert Yancey by two strokes, he wiped out that margin with three straight birdies on the 13th, 14th and 15th holes. When he trudged onto the 18th green to line up an 18-ft. putt, he was leading Nichols by one stroke, Yancey by four and Boros by five. Taking no chances, Gay lagged the ball to within 2 ft. of the hole, tapped in for a 67 and a 72-hole total of 280-eight under par-and went off to collect...
Skiers in action? Not at all. The men and women on the slopes were not moving on skis. Their equipment consisted of 8-ft.-long, two-passenger snowmobiles, and their forward thrust came from putt-putting, 7-15-h.p. lawnmower-type engines. The name of the sport is snowmobiling, or snowcatting, and it has become an even faster growing winter sport than skiing itself. Three years ago, there were 15,000 snowmobiles in the U.S.; today there are nearly 200,000. There is even a U.S. Snowmobile Association in Eagle River, Wis., which helps local clubs organize weekend rallies (more...
...sight of beefy cops on dainty putt-putts has already enriched the city's lingo. Greenwich Villagers call scooter police "buzzy fuzzy"; because of their blue crash helmets, scooter men endure such other names as "blisterheads" and "bubbleheads." But names can never hurt them. So effective are the scootermounted cops that after the first nine putt-putts had been issued to park patrolmen in 1964, muggings dropped by 30% in Manhattan's Central Park, by 40% in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The lesson was not lost; four high-crime precincts were then quickly scooterized. In a recent...