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Golf, being a Scottish game, is steeped in Calvinist notions of sin and salvation. At most championship courses, a graceful swing from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick...
...golf's modern era with a score of 270, still a record in Masters history. His performance, remarkable in itself, also coincided with two other innovations: experts from defunct cold war ballistics programs began designing space-age golf clubs, and new video-analysis technology enabled coaches to deconstruct Woods' swing into thousands of frames, precisely comparing his technique with that of their students. Within a few years of Woods' breakthrough victory, a new generation of professionals - armed with swollen, explosively powerful golf clubs and almost flawless swings - began arriving at Augusta with games that matched Woods in length...
...maintaining what the tournament committee calls the "shot value" of each hole. According to this strategy, holes on which golfers would have hit a 6-iron approach shot 40 years ago were lengthened so as to demand the same club for the approach today. Butch Harmon, Woods' former swing coach, says this fixation on "shot value" robbed the tee shots on several holes of their nuance, since golfers do not need to draw or fade the ball with their drivers when they are simply trying to hit it as far as possible down long, straight landing strips. "The days...
...propelled the Pioneers (6-4) past Harvard in a 10-9 overtime win on Saturday afternoon in front of 1,480 fans at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium in Denver, Colo.It was the third straight loss for the Crimson (4-4) and the final contest in a three-game road swing that sent Harvard all across the country during spring break. Fatigue didn’t seem to be an issue for most of the contest, as a four-goal second-quarter output had Harvard up 6-3 at halftime. The Crimson led for the bulk of the second half...
There's a flip side to this as well--the argument that Obama is dangerously weak among key Democratic and swing constituencies. The Clinton campaign has been raising questions about Obama's ability to win white blue-collar voters in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and Hispanics in places like New Mexico and Colorado--all swing states that will most likely decide the election...