Word: troon
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...Sarazen played in the British Open as an honorary qualifier. The Open that year was held at Troon, where he had competed 50 years earlier in the 1923 Open. The 71-year-old Sarazen shot rounds of 79 and 81. After his final round he was strolling along the clubhouse veranda when he overheard two of the oldest members discussing his performance. "If I'm not mistaken," one of them said to the other, "Sarazen had a total of 160 for his two rounds in 1923--a 75 and an 85. This year once again he had a total...
...best known example of the enduring greatness of golf's champions is Gene Sarazen. When he was seventy-one, he played in the 1973 British Open at Troon, fifty years after his first appearance there. The dapper, knickerbockered Sarazen aced the 126-yd. hole known as the Postage Stamp because of its small green. He finished with a 79 and shot an 81 for his second round, sinking an explosion shot for a 2 on the Postage Stamp...
...real partier," Bartlett says of Hagen. Although he has only a second-hand knowledge of Hagen's glory days, the anecdotes speak for themselves. After he won the British Open at Troon in 1928, he begged off entering the clubhouse for the victory presentation because the players had been forbidden to go inside during the tournament; instead, he invited the gallery over to the pub where he was staying...
...Troon, Scotland...