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...story. Golfers all lose their game, and usually their dignity, on the green. Nicklaus, who is in the throes of it at 42, won for the first time in two years last month with the steadying aid of his 19-year-old son Steve, who caddied and read his putts. Hogan got to the chilling point where he could scarcely draw the putter blade back. "I've seen Ben smoke a whole cigarette over a 6-ft. putt," said Snead with a shiver. "Once you get the 'yips,' you never lose them." For almost ten years...
Seven years later, Bogart Jackson lipped his final practice putt before heading to the first tee for yet another attempt to acquire that small card which would permit him to play the pro circuit. He sighed as the ball rimmed the cup and stopped spinning half-an-inch from the hole. This would be his last qualifier, he promised himself. If he didn't make it, he would quit...
...have been the shot heard round the world, but the 20-foot putt that Merrimack College's Rich Moroda sank on the 18th green yesterday at the ECAC qualifying match in Stowe, Vt., certainly made a lasting impression on the Harvard Golf Team...
...Moroda's Titleist fell into the cup, most of Harvard's hopes for a berth in this month's ECAC championship fell with it. Only the top two squads from yesterday's 16-team match will qualify for the tournament, and Morada's putt put Merrimack in second, the Crimson in third...
...figured he'd lag his first putt," Crimson co-captain Jon Mosle said, speaking for the surprised crowd of onlookers. Moroda plays in the fifth slot for a team which has traditionally had little impact on intercollegiate golf...