Word: teeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only interest which we had in the attached clipping from Page 29, Aug. 17 issue of TIME was that we doubted whether a Western Union messenger would be permitted to deliver a message of such serious import to a golf player at the tee at the beginning of a tournament match. I, therefore, developed the facts and am sending you the report of our local General Superintendent just as he made...
...they (the finalists in the national municipal course golf tournament) stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read: MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE...
...horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...hero of this exhibition is a shipping clerk who mixes up his adverbs and can get 300 yards from the tee. In return for curing his round employer's slice, he gains a guest card to the latter's country club. He drops a spoon shot on a lady's backbone and, while apologizing, falls in love. Advertised by his host as the heir to $80,000,000, he wins the lady. Her indignation is extensive when, in a hotel room, he reports his penury, a condition which renders her in his eyes and in her nightgown...
...they stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He opened it, turned pale, then bit his lip and shoved the missive into his pocket. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read : MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE. McAuliffe, who did not need, as a matter of fact, the efforts...