Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carefully planned route known as the "grapefruit circuit" (see map). Starting at sporty Pinehurst with the Mid-South Open in November [No. 1 on the map], they move down the coast one jump ahead of the thermometer, spend the month of December shuttling around Greater Miami and Nassau [tournaments this year: $10,000 Miami-Biltmore Open (No. 2), $3,500 Nassau Open (No. j), $3,000 Miami Open (No. 4), $4,000 Holly-wood Beach Hotel Open (No. 5)], swing over to California for a midwinter stand, then return to Florida [this year via the $5,000 Crescent City Open...
...spot of the season-the $5,000 Los Angeles Open, sponsored by the local Times. Warming up for the opening round, on the sunny municipal links at Griffith Park, the top-notch golfers of the U. S., as well as the obscure hopefuls, experienced more than their usual pre-tournament "yips" (Jitters). For this was the No. i tournament of the West Coast and, although it was almost midway in the winter circuit, it was the beginning of a new year and a new race for money-winning honors. This. too, was the first tournament in which they were officially...
...last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones and Sarazen eras. By the time the No. i U. S. tournament of the year, the National Open, came around in June, Sam Snead was favored to win-an unheard of predicament for a first-year man. And more unheard of was the fact that a first-year man lived up to his reputation in his first national championship tournament. Although...
...following year won both the U. S. junior singles (outdoors) and men's singles (indoors). U.S. L. T. A. officials were therefore watching eagerly last week when 88 very young men started play in the U. S. indoor junior championship tournament on the smooth board floor of Manhattan's big, bleak Seventh Regiment Armory...
...less experienced half of the Dartmouth squad traveled to New York's Lake Placid, to face eight other Eastern college teams in the Lake Placid Club's annual invitation tournament. The first day curly-haired Ed Meservey won the cross-country race, followed by two Dartmouth teammates in second and third place. Next day Ed Wells, who had won the slalom the day before, placed first in the downhill. On the final day Meservey placed second in the ski jump, which gave him first place in the combined cross-country & jump, brought Dartmouth's score...