Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf can seem deceptively undramatic. Golfers do not run or jump or kick or pounce or pound or shoot off firearms. Their play seems unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely mean the smell of freshly mown grass and the sight of the sudden, wind-blown hill. To some, it may just be a pleasing setting to sell insurance...
Baltusrol's lower course had been redesigned by famed Golf-Course Architect Robert Trent Jones (see box). Its slim fairways were stretched out to 7,027 yards and its bunkers and greens were scientifically remodeled-at a cost of $50,000-to test the skill of the most accurate golfer...
...Johnny Bulla, another young hopeful, headed for the West Coast in Bulk's Ford jalopy. Snead, who had grave misgivings about his own skill, suggested to Bulla that they split their winnings...
...Once Snead sat in the Boston Red Sox dugout during a baseball game and listened solemnly while his good friend Ted Williams held forth on the difficulties of baseball as compared with golf. Baseball, with a round bat and a fast-moving target, Williams explained, calls for much more skill than the quiet game of golf. "Maybe so," said Sam doubtfully. "But when we hit a foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell...
Nothing could be more unfair. Nearly all the nation's 5,000 golf courses, with their green acres of barbered landscape, are carefully planned tests of skill. Artful purpose goes into the spotting of the bunkers and traps, the contours and creeks and greens of well-planned holes such as those pictured on the next four pages...