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...lanky young man with the somewhat familiar eyes ambled onto the green. Crouched in his Ben Crenshaw-like putting stance, Nathaniel Crosby, 19, shot a final glance at the pin, coolly sank the 15-ft. birdie putt, then jubilantly leaped into the arms of his caddie, Joby Ross. Bing Crosby's son had just won the 81st U.S. Amateur Golf Championship. Off course, the University of Miami junior displayed all the easygoing awshucksness of his late father, but during play he proved to be a scrappy, tenacious opponent. Coming back from four holes down during the final afternoon round...
Still, after four years of traveling across 1.24 billion miles of space, there was no faulting Voyager 2's marksmanship. Indeed, one golf-minded scientist likened it to sinking a 500-mile putt. Superlatives were certainly in order last week as the semiautonomous robot completed the second lap of its epic flight: a rendezvous with the giant ringed planet Saturn, the spectacular finale to two ambitious decades of planetary exploration by unmanned U.S. spacecraft...
...networks, excelled in combining intimacy with spectacle. The result was less pointless darting around by cameras than usual. Gone also was another fixture of solemn English occasions, the reverent intonations of the late BBC commentator Richard Dimbleby, who whispered as if he might spoil someone's putt. It being morning-show time back in the States, the David Hartmans and Jane Pauleys, practiced in the smiling art of undemanding chatter, now reinforced the American journalistic hardhats in their vantage points along the parade route. Along with much inevitable pageant-babble, they provided useful notes of what was going...
...Watson the best golfer ever? He may be the best PGA golfer ever, but one time this summer I was playing Putt-Putt miniature golf in New Mexico and was sinking everything. Man, it was great...
...next three days are a kind of Outward Bound for driving. At the speeds required (70 to 80 m.p.h.), students at first have no sense of how to control the car-or whether they have it in control at all. Many Americans are defensive drivers, quite content to putt around in an underpowered, six-year-old sedan, carefully navigating the maniacal freeway traffic that surrounds many cities. And every sensible and safe reflex built up for that kind of driving must be violated in Scott's course...