Word: southern
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This year's Open also had dramatic overtones more appropriate to the shootout at the O.K. Corral. Not only was the tournament played for only the second time in history at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma but the FBI bureau office in Oklahoma City received a death threat on Green's life...
Green's style does not evoke comparisons with the classical grace of many earlier Open winners. Yet he showed the same shot-making ability around the exquisitely manicured greens of Southern Hills that earned Tommy Bolt the championship there in 1958. One has to go back to the days of Leo Diegel to find a preeminent professional with such a knock-kneed and elbows akimbo stance...
...factor that makes the Open the hallmark of every golfing season is the greatness of the courses on which it is played. Southern Hills is no exception. The course indirectly owes its origin to the discovery of oil across the Arkansas River from Tulsa at Red Fork. Before that Tulsa had been a small settlement that took its name from the Greek Indian word for council or tulsa...
...group of oil magnates seeking recreation during the Depression and hoping to create employment commissioned Perry Maxwell to design Southern Hills. It was soon recognized as the premier test of golf in the Southwest and perhaps the most rigorous eighteen as far as driving goes in the nation...
...majority of the holes are doglegs and the Bermuda grass rough has been treated with a growth-inducing acid that makes it almost impossible to extricate a stray shot. In fact, Hogan had to withdraw from the 1958 Open at Southern Hills after injuring his wrist while slashing out of the rough. The finely powdered sand in the bunkers also makes accuracy a necessity. Instead of rough quarry sand, the bunkers contain sand known as "Number Six Wash" extracted from the bottom of the Arkansas River...