Word: putts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week the turkey flock they consider their own made its annual reappearance. There are 16 birds this year, hens and gobblers, milling about in an inch of new snow. A parked car doesn't bother them, but if you try to approach on foot, they sound their alarm call, "putt," or "putt-putt," and wander off into the woods in a not very alarmed fashion. Real alarm would send them running at about 25 m.p.h. or flying at up to 55 m.p.h., which they can do for several hundred yards at a stretch. It's clear that what they...
That Saturday morning I was up bright and early, rearing to go. My excitement was not tempered by the fact that the only golf I had ever played was an annual round of putt-putt on family trips to the beach--I was decked out in all the golf attire...
...wandered around for a while before I found a seat at the 16th hole, a beautiful par-three, which, I later found out, had been the sight of some of the greatest putts in Masters' history. The year before, Jack Nicklaus had clinched his record sixth green jacket with a huge putt at the hole. In 1975, Nicklaus sunk an even bigger putt, a ridiculous 60-footer, to win the golf tournament...
...basketball player has to shoot free throws with fans doing everything except exposing themselves, then a golfer certainly can putt with fans screaming...
...surprise of the night was actually the opening act, Doobious Leghorn. In just a five-song set, the five-member band covered the musical spectrum from R&D to heavy metal to a take-off of "Putt the Magic Dragon" that got everyone on their feet. "We play whatever tickles our fancy," said guitarist Dan Bernal, and we have a lot of fancies to tickle...