Word: tees
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...year-old had long been considered a prospective Taoiseach (pronounced tee-shuck), but was suddenly catapulted into office by the surprise resignation of Bertie Ahern, his colleague in the centrist Fianna Fail party. Ahern, the longest serving Irish premier of modern times, announced his resignation last month to concentrate on defending himself before a tribunal investigating payments to politicians...
Sporting a pair of Gucci tortoiseshell frames, a mustard-yellow tee from Banana Republic and black Zegna jeans, Zebrowski-Rubin explains that entering the competition simply involved submitting a few photographs and a short personal statement...
...following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal: at Augusta, golfers walk over the Hogan, Sarazen and Nelson bridges, and the tournament is opened each year by "honorary starters" - past champions too infirm to play 18 holes but fit enough to drive off the ceremonial first tee shot...
Golf, being a Scottish game, is steeped in Calvinist notions of sin and salvation. At most championship courses, a graceful swing from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick...
...each hole. According to this strategy, holes on which golfers would have hit a 6-iron approach shot 40 years ago were lengthened so as to demand the same club for the approach today. Butch Harmon, Woods' former swing coach, says this fixation on "shot value" robbed the tee shots on several holes of their nuance, since golfers do not need to draw or fade the ball with their drivers when they are simply trying to hit it as far as possible down long, straight landing strips. "The days of hitting big, sweeping hooks off the tees are gone...