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...semi-finals Jones finished his morning round 9 up; after lunch, while Voigt and Perkins started out, he stood on the practice tee driving ball after ball through exactly the same trajectory far down the fairway to where two caddies waited to pick them up. After every perfect drive, Jones' face grew darker. Then he went out on the course and played six more holes with Phil Finlay, a shaky, hard-hitting Harvard boy; by this time he had won his match, 13 up and 12 to play...
...first hole at Brae Burn is 337 yards with a brook at the depth of the fairway, just below the green. Smart golfer', use an iron from the tee for a long pitch to the green rather than take a chance on driving into the brook. When Jones and Perkins went out to play their match, Perkins took an iron out, Jones took a wooden club−and a six for the hole to Perkins' four. Perkins was one up until the fourth; then Jones evened the match. At the end of the morning round, Jones...
...practice rounds, Francis Ouimet, George Von Elm, Harrison Johnston, Jess Sweetser stood on the eighth tee in the rain, waited for the honor man to tee up. Thunder blasted, lightning spat at a fence a few yards away from the mound, shocked slightly the foursome, most annoyed Sweetser, who had only to make two pars...
...golf course at Lake Placid, N. Y., last week, Rosa Melba Ponselle laughed and chattered from the high spirits of her summer out-of-doors. Playing the round with her, was her singing coach, Romano Romani. He watched her grow serious and silent to tee off. His eyes were on the ball...
...Caleb F. Fox of Elkins Park, Pa. (near Philadelphia), was the old lady. In 1895, she played in the first Women's National and scored 132. In the years after that she was seen walking briskly from tee to green on almost every golf course in the land. Dresses changed and women golfers got better. Golf became the national game and hoydens of 16 got so they could hit 200-yard drives. Mrs. Fox was not discouraged. As she got older, she took to wearing shorter dresses, walking a little faster, and hitting the ball a little harder. Girl...