Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potter entered his first major tournament last week, the Long Island Open. Spectators noted the colossal pair of pale grey plus fours in which his nether portions were encased. When the first 18 was over, Potter had scored 67, five under par, record breaking for the difficult No. 4 course at Salisbury Country Club. He drove a 310-yard green...
...scored 76, next round, then a woeful 84, finished with an 80, tied for sixth place. Sarazen won the tournament by eleven strokes with 290. Potter retired to his water hazards. Experts are on the watch for his next tournament. He is only...
Without benefit of bars, cigars, swimming pools, expensive caddies, grill rooms and fat greens fees there are masses of citizens who play good golf. Carl F. Kauffman, Pittsburgh, plays the best. Kauffman last week won the National Public Links Tournament, at the Ridgewood Club, Cleveland, defeating William Serrick, New York, in a match play. Kauffman lost the first three holes in the final, won them back and three more, lost the lead, and won on the 37th hole. His round was 77, the loser...
Twelve sets would be a long tennis match. Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin and Arnold W. Jones played the equivalent of twelve love sets (72 games) to defeat Mrs. William Endicott and George Lott in the finals for the Rhode Island State Championship. It was thought to be the longest tournament mixed doubles match on record. Scores...
Cannot shake off a Presbyterian feeling about tournament golf? that the winner is predestined, an instrument of fate...