Word: shuting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goals: Stoneman 6, Farrington 5, Glick 5, Nido 4, Shute 4, Altman 2, Mottla 1, Woods 1, Yeomans 1. Foul shots: Farrington 1, Nolan 1. Stoneman 1, Yeomans...
...play at the Blue Mound Country Club, the P. G. A. accepted. The only problem was the date of the tournament. To make sure of a first-class field, officials agreed to let members of the Ryder Cup team enter without qualifying in their sections. Nonetheless, Walter Hagen, Densmore Shute, Craig Wood, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen said the time was inconvenient. They had exhibition dates. There was talk of withdrawing the $9,000 guarantee, counter-suggestions of withdrawal by many of the pros who were entered. Finally, grinning little Sarazen and smiling little Runyan appeared at Blue Mound...
...Walter Hagen, touring Scotland with young Densmore Shute, new British Open golf champion: three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen...
From there on, the match was close but the result was never in much doubt. Wood, outdriving his opponent by as much as 60 yds., was seldom nearer to the pin with his approaches. Shute, who said later that he had set himself the task of keeping ahead of Wood for the first round, had one tight moment when his approach caught Ginger-beer bunker on the 14th. He pitched out, sank his putt for a birdie and ended the first 18 holes still three strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done...
...excited as Shute himself was his golf-professional father, who learned the game at St. Andrews as a caddy, taught his son to play with a set of miniature clubs at the age of 3. Hermon Shute got the news about the play-off when he was giving a lesson at the Ashland, Ohio, Country Club, stopped long enough to say: "I sort of hoped the weather would be bad. . . . The boy is a great bad-weather player." U. S. golf followers knew that young Densmore Shute was an able player in good weather also. He tied Gene Sarazen...