Word: teeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson golf team has been playing a lot of strange courses in terrible weather conditions so far this spring. But this afternoon, the Harvard linksmen will finally get to play a match on their home course. The Country Club, in Brookline. Tee-off time for today's Cornell match...
Sophomore Andy Marks had a great day, playing at number seven, winning both of his matches easily and shooting a 75. Marks had a near hole-in-one on the 120-yard 15th. His tee shot hit about a foot in front of the hole, hit the pin, and dropped a couple of inches away...
...golf to new heights last month, he claimed one of his private moon shots-unhindered by any air or much gravity-went "miles and miles." Ha! says Dr. Gordon Swann of the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied the photographs and sees a ball about 20 yards from the tee-off point. "Around the moon-plus 20 yards," cracks Shepard. But the ball in the photo was not the "miles-and-miles" shot anyway, he adds; that one, he re-estimates, went about 400 yards-"not bad for a six-iron...
Spiro T. Agnew is a tough man to upstage-even on a golf course. True to form, the Vice President stole Act I at the $140,000 Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs with a dramatic pair of tee shots, both of which sliced into the gallery, causing something of a stir. But the closing curtain and encore went to an equally renowned performer: Arnold Palmer. In the kind of cliffhanging finish for which he is famous, Palmer coolly rammed home an 18-ft. putt on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off last week to defeat...
...skull than he ever came to breaking par. Spiro Agnew, honored at the Ail-American Collegiate Golf Dinner for his participation in charity tournaments, characterized himself as "the Harold Stassen of golf." Explained Agnew: "I don't win very often, but I'm always ready to tee off again...