Word: tees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd of over 11,000 tee-shirted lacrosse aficionados and an ABC Wide World of Sport's team (the announcers in ugly yellow blazers) were waiting just before 2 p.m. Saturday to answer the question of why anyone with their wits about them would be in Providence, R.I. over a sunny spring weekend. The answer came from the two teams, though at first it looked like Bud Beardmore's Terrapins were going to take the plaques and trophies back to the Chesapeake for a second straight year. By halftime, it was 7-2 Maryland and Cornell had to have wished...
Senior Bobby Thompson carded a 79 while playing number two to make him Harvard's medalist. Thompson's clutch holes were the seventh and the par three 160-yard seventeenth. On the seventh, a par four, he split the narrow fairway with a 4-wood off the tee and gouged a wedge that skipped up against the flagstick. He bladed an eight iron for his second ringer of the day but missed the birdie putt...
Caddies in the pre-modern era of golf also put in a hard day of work. Before wooden tees were ever invented, small mounds of wet sand served the purpose. The result was that caddies traipsed along the fairway with troughs of wet sand slung around their necks before it dawned on the members of the Innerleven golf course in Fife, Scotland to install stationary sand boxes on each tee...
...aging caddy, still languishing in the Rochester caddy yard, Hagen's antics are still a vivid reality. Bartlett becomes excited by simply recounting the favorite epigram of Hagen's aging chronicler: "He always used to tell the story about how Hagen showed up one morning on the first tee wearing a tuxedo...
Captain Scott McNealy skied to an 85. "I don't know what was wrong but I couldn't hit my long irons." Immediately after his bogey-filled round, the mystified McNealy retired to the practice tee with four buckets of balls and his long irons...