Word: under-par
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...hole final round, Betsy played the hilly, 6,137-yd course as if she owned it. Betsy curled in long, difficult putts-one of 60 ft.-with grooved accuracy, gained six strokes on the leaders in the first six holes, and finished the morning 18 with a 4-under-par 68, tying the tournament record. She wilted a bit in the afternoon sun and slipped to a 75. It was just enough to win when 25-year-old Joyce Ziske's challenge failed on the final hole. Champion Rawls's 72-hole total: a 4-over-par...
...Burly Mike Souchak, onetime Duke University end, fired a brilliant 6-under-par 66 in the first round, kept the pressure on, posted a two-stroke victory in the $46,620 Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas, Nev. Runner-up: Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., who faded on the final nine holes...
...Husky Arnold Palmer, 25, a professional golfer for less than a year, shot a fine 265 for 72 holes on Toronto's Weston Golf Club. His 23-under-par total, just two strokes over the tournament record, won him the $15,000 Canadian Open championship...
...Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen...
...magic number for attaining physical fitness. Actually, for the man with a job, the excretes may be more harmful than beneficial if it requires him to make up time lost in afternoon exercise by sleeping less at night. If University officials are concerned about the physical condition of under-par freshmen, they should still assign the 300 students who annually fail the step-test to a special course, and give more emphasis to the intra-mural program for the rest. The time problem has occasionally been recognized elsewhere. Team managers, who rarely do much exercising, are excused from physical training...