Word: teeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first tee is filled with foursomes; on the practice green, more players stand poised over putts. The game may be golf, but it bears scant resemblance to the pastime of the country-club set. The scene is Detroit's Palmer Park Municipal Golf Course, and among its players are some of the city's best-and best-known-black golfers. The aim is action, bankrolls are at the ready, and the style is straight soul. Indeed, to play Palmer Park is to take a lesson in lively ethnic semantics...
Golfers "stick it in the ground" rather than tee the ball up. Clubs are "hammers," a shanked shot is a "pitch-out," and breaking par is "ducking the card." The art of psyching your opponent is known as "woofing." And a player with a lethal putter is an "undertaker," because he can "bury" the ball...
...four (average score: 4.34). This is one of the holes that make Augusta National a long-driver's course. You've got to flirt with the trees on the left, but gently. Too much left and you're in the woods. The ideal tee shot is a low, running draw that goes slightly left of center in order to catch a steep slope tilting toward the green, leaving you a two-or three-iron home. If you fade your drive to the right, you've got an impossible downhill-sidehill shot that is at least...
HOLE 11: 445 yds., par four (average score: 4.32). Here you really want to crank it up because your drive has to carry the crest of a hill. It's another hole favoring the big hitter, and your tee shot should be dead straight-the hardest kind of golf shot to hit. But it's the second shot that's the real tester here, 185-200 yds. if the pin is placed on the back edge of the green or to the left near the pond. But forget the pin placement and always -I mean always...
...agree with Arnold Palmer that this is the toughest par three in golf. It hurts more of us in Masters play than any other hole on the course. First you've got to keep reminding yourself that the wind may blow from behind you off the tee, but you can be sure it's against you at the green. If it's a choice between a six-and seven-iron off the tee, always grab for the six-iron so you can clear the creek. The right side of the green is a coffin for me because...