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...Country Club in Brookline for warmer, greener conditions. Team members usually generate enough money to pay about half of their yearly expenses through fundraising, while the athletic department budget covers the other half. This year's squad, which coach Dick Crosby describes as "a young team," traveled down to Sawgrass near Jacksonville. Florida, where they polished their games in preparation for spring matches against Ivy, local and NCAA Division I competition...
...this Southern squall is a 242-sq.-mi. area at the tip of the Florida peninsula known as the East Everglades. Like Everglades National Park, just to the west, it is still unspoiled, filled with palmettos and sawgrass, marshes and wildlife. And that is the problem. Eager to escape Florida's crowded, condo-filled coast, the homesteaders have picked one of the state's most ecologically fragile regions, essential to the environmental well-being of all of South Florida...
After matching mashies with Flagler at "The Ponce," the Crimson contingent will brave the hazardous marshes of Sawgrass Country Club, a course which is so treacherous that the Professional Golf Association refused to hold its annual Tournament Players Championship (TPC) there this year. Last spring, Alexander was heading for a phenomenal sub-80 round on this monster only to have his dream thwarted by darkness on the 18th tee. This time, the Michigan state champion plans an early tee-off in hopes of breaking the 80 barrier...
After a much-needed day of pool-side R&R following Sawgrass, Harvard and Flagler are scheduled to tee it up with Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), Saint Leo's, and fellow northerner MIT in the FIT Invitational Tournament. Both FIT and Flagler holed out well ahead of the Crimson in this one last year, but Harvard saved face by burying MIT by 25 shots...
...There's 52 years of history behind this city," protests Port Richey Councilman Harold C. Loser. "I question giving that up." "Nonsense," scoffs Downey. "Fifty-two years is not much of a history. Half of our city is water and sawgrass marsh anyway...