Word: tees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder just what he thought to be done about it anyway. The coal affair has already caused considerable governmental confusion, and if every issue that arises is to be met in this desultory fashion, it is to be feared that the present majority of Conservatives--both toping and tee-totaling factions--will soon evaporate...
...arranged a playoff for MacDonald Smith and Gene Sarazen, tied at 286 strokes of the 72 holes of medal play in the Metropolitan Open Championship, last fortnight on Long Island (TIME, July 26). Irresistible Smith and Immovable Sarazen proceeded to take 70 more strokes apiece. They were told to tee off again. Irresistible Smith took 72 strokes more; Immovable Sarazen took 72 strokes more. It was a 108-hole tie, a championship record...
...tournament for the British. One by one they dropped behind, Sir Ernest Holderness, Cyril Tolley, Robert Scott, Abe Mitchell, and the three men within striking distance of the winning score were Americans-Jones, Hagen, Al Watrous. From the first tee of the course at St. Ann's they drove off to play the last 36 holes, Jones paired with Watrous, Hagen follow-ing behind...
...last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might as well play without trousers, he kept his tweed jacket on. Hagen's silk shirt invited breezes. He smiled. At the seventy-first tee he lay on the ground for a brief rest, then rose, sent a perfect drive down the fairway. Mitchell sliced his iron shot. Hagen, standing blandly by, watched him make a hopeless try for recovery, then holed his own putt and turned to oblige the camera...
Huge circles were marked off on the fairways where the course's architect had calculated that tee-shots should come to rest. They were concentric circles, the smallest, inner one yielding nine points to the player driving his ball within it; the next largest, eight points; a third, seven points. On the par-5 holes there were systems of circles for second-shots to reach. At the greens, the cup was the bull's-eye and there was a special bonus for holing shots from off the putting surface...