Word: pyne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bayer Jr. from Princeton emerged as the nation's first individual intercollegiate champion. The next year, Harvard dethroned the Elis while the Crimson's J.F. Curtis was medalist. The third year the three schools met Reid finished first, as each college had then had a national champion. Percy Pyne Jr. won for Princeton in 1900, H. Lindsley took the title for Harvard in 1901, and Yale's Charles Hitchcock...
...most flamboyant figure in collegiate golf at the turn of the century was Percy Pyne II, who won the National Championship for Princeton in 1900. Pyne came from behind to beat Harvard's J.G. Averill in extra holes...
...Pyne became enraptured with the game while at St. Paul's School after his uncle sent him a set of clubs from France. Foresaking prep school competition, Percy brashly entered the U.S. Amateur at Morris County. During the first day's play, he scored a hole-in-one on the 17th. The next day he needed 17 strokes on the same hole, after trying to hack his ball out from under a fence...
...Pyne would throw outlandish golfing parties for the players from Princeton, Harvard and Yale. After one of these shindings, J. Borden Harriman groped into his car and casually said, "Home,James" to his chauffeur. When he woke up, he found himself before the front door of the family estate in Mount Kisco...
...Pyne once played in a tournament at Morris County and was agog to find his opponent wearing red suspenders on the course. The fellow turned out to be a prominent haberdsher who tried to sell Percy the clothes off his back during the entire round...