Word: tees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tee-time at 1 :45 p.m., 10,000 keyed-up golf fans were strewn around the 6,894-yd. course. Wise ones invested in cardboard periscopes; wiser ones bought two, used Scotch tape to build periscopes on periscopes. All of them, it seemed, were for Palmer, the home-town hero. "Attaboy, Arnie!" cried the fans. "Go get him, Arnie, baby!" Some suggestions were even more pointed: "Needle him, Arnie." "Walk around while he's putting, Arnie...
...putted for a weak bogey five. Playing near-flawless golf at a deliberate, almost indolent pace ("He plays too slow," said Palmer, "and I told him so"), Nicklaus made his par and took a one-stroke lead that he never relinquished. At the fourth hole, when Nicklaus hooked his tee shot into 6-in. rough. Palmer managed for the first time to outdrive the hefty Ohioan-and it was on that 544-yd. par-five hole that Nicklaus hit his best shot of the day. Forced to play a "safe" No. 3 iron from the clawing rough, Nicklaus faced...
...pros except the daring golf they play and the supreme confidence they display in their talents. "I'm playing beautifully," Gary Player announced to reporters before the start of the 1961 Masters. "I think I may win this tournament." Four days later, he did. On the first tee at the 1958 N.C.A.A. championships in Williamstown, Mass., chunky Phil Rodgers. then a University of Houston student, turned around and announced to the gallery: "I've got a hundred bucks says I'll win this thing." No one felt like betting, and Rodgers went...
...tee the ball higher, and I hit through it instead of down at it. I always wanted to be able to hit my drives to the exact spot I had in mind. Now I'm coming closer...
...uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing to himself...