Word: putts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their spring and strength by season upon season of relentless battering. In baseball it's the eyes, diminished to the degree that a curve ball looks like a fast ball and there are too many called strike threes. In golf it's the nerves, causing a 3-ft. putt to look like three miles of bad road. In sports from archery to yachting, age steals away the skills, leaving nothing behind for the graying champion to embrace. Except heart...
...inches less on Olazabal's second shot to the par-five 15th would have sent his ball careening down the slippery slope to a watery grave--a near-certain bogey-six, not the eagle-three he eventually corralled by holing a putt of no minimal length...
...even though he wound up losing to this newest incarnation of Hogan, the dashing Spaniard with the perpetually stern countenance, I learned something. Tom Lehman told reporters that he "put his heart and soul" into that putt he stroked...
...supposed to mark her return to women's tennis. Maybe she's waiting for Nancy and Tonya to get out of her spotlight...Great to see Scott Hoch win another golf tournament last weekend in the Bob Hope Chryseler Classic. Hoch "as in choke, who blew a two-foot putt that would have won him the 1989 Masters, won for the first time since that fateful season, and in light of his top-six finish last year in the U.S. Open, it seems his return to form might be legit...And a show of hands, please. How many...
...Drive for show; putt for dough" is an expression golfers understand. So should members of Congress, many of whom are fond of playing the game at someone else's expense. However, despite the legislative long balls hit over the past season, Capitol Hill's 535 members were unable to master one essential stroke: reforming the rules for their own behavior. True, both the House and Senate gave the appearance of movement on laws designed to tighten campaign financing and lobbying regulations. But both bodies moved so late and in such contradictory directions that any reconciliation they are able to fashion...