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...clear skies prevail this afternoon out at Dedham, the Crimson golf team will once again tee off against Boston College in a desperate attempt to play a long-postponed 18 holes...
...just about to tee off in last Summer's New York championships when a friend rushed, up and told him of Donaldson's laudatory comment. One minute later, he dubbed his drive before a gallery of 150 people. "Boy, was I mortified while walking the 40 feet up to my ball," Rick ruefully admits. Rick has little to say about the possibility of a professional golfing future...
...Claude Harmon strode out to the first tee, he knew he lacked what the boys called "tournament toughness." But on the first round he fired a 70, just one stroke off the leader...
Perilous No. 16. Even Ben Hogan's iron jaw rattled at the sight of it. The tee is a rocky promontory jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. The next sight of land is another rocky promontory 192 yards down the California coast; in between, foaming breakers crash distractingly on the rocks. Hogan, no man to let salt water scare him, promptly overdrove the green; several of his fellow pros-including Jimmy Thomson and Ralph Hutchinson-dunked their first ball into the ocean...
Next day, Crosby & Co. moved over to Monterey Peninsula, an easier course, and then to spectacular Pebble Beach for the final 18. On the first tee, a kid yelled, "Betcha a quarter," as Bing began his backswing. Without pausing, Bing yelled back, "A quarter what?" and drove the ball out 230 yards. Among the pros, the pacesetter was slender Lloyd Mangrum, with Hogan and Bobby Locke dangerously close...