Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shambled over to the ABC Disco with some friends I made at the Winterhaven Mall. It was a "request" disco filled with pretty sedate people--slumped and smoking and going to the bathroom--except for a bunch of minor league ball players propped up behind the revolving merry-go-round bar playing "flick the cockroach." A big Thurman Munson clone walked up to me wearing a Harley-Davidson t-shirt and yelled in my ear that I wasn't drinking enough. A "Mother Harley" tattoo embellished his hefty forearm, set flatly in front...
Fitzgibbons played the type of golf Walter Hagen once termed "unconscious." He started his round on the second nine and promptly birdied the par five 14th. He overshot the green on his second shot, a two-iron he caught flush, but chipped back and canned the putt. Like Dales, he also found a watery grave on the 16th but escaped with a bogey...
...only costly mistake came on the 18th, which, in this case, was the ninth hole of his round. Fitzgibbons plunked his five-iron into the woods and for lack of a steam shovel was forced to declare an unplayable lie and take a double bogey...
...loss was the impeccable play of Spence Fitzgibbons, who earned medalist honors with a three-over par 75, three strokes ahead of fellow teammate and Harvard Captain, Alex Vik. Vik played the front nine in even par but foozled coming down the backstretch. The only other sub-eighty round was recorded by Salem State's Andy Sborbone...
...rest of Harvard's scoring was desultory at best. Freshman Glenn Alexander, whose drives are as pure as the driven snow, came in at 80. Jim Dales skied to an 85 when he lost seven strokes to par in the last three holes of his round, Dave Paxton and Brett Johnson stumbled...