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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Below is the scoreboard for the day's round. The name of Spence's partner remains a dark secret, to protect him against any charges of cowardice, since he tore up his card after the seventh hole...
...those shifting salt-and-pepper skies hung over The Country Club in Brookline the other day, the kind that bodes so well for a round of golf on a true links-type course. The first rounds of spring are often the most memorable, and so it was on Wednesday, when Spence Fitzgibbons took up his springy driver and embarked on a nine-hole jaunt over the Primrose course with a playing partner who will remain anonymous...
...following is a telling commentary by Fitzgibbons on his round. On the first tee he declared: "The key here is to set up to the right and boom it." His drive flew off to the right and disappeared from view, which led to the comment, "I want a mulligan, then I'll be ready." A second drive followed the line of the first, which prompted: "God damn it, I'm having trouble hooking it today...
Dave Paxton and Peter Smith both shot character-building 82s while Ron Himmelman carded an 85. Playing at number seven, freshman Leslie Greis shot a 91 after firing a low-qualifying round of 77 on Wednesday. "She played well," said coach Bob Donovan of Greis, "but it's really almost unfair to play her in this wind. Those holes she can't normally reach in two she could barely reach in three...
After that it was Clifford who stole the show, although round-trippers, in the fifth by Halas and in the seventh by Singleton, were strong contenders for co-starring roles. Both blasts went up the left-center field power alley, falling about 370 feet from home plate...