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...figure out of the pages of P.G. Wodehouse who engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers best while at Eton and for whom the golden age of golf was when the gutta percha ball was in circulation and the renowned British "Triumvirate" of J.H. Taylor, Harry Vardon and James Braid reigned supreme...
...Trevino's record in 1971. At 31, he is in his prime?and is working through the hottest streak of his career. In addition to finishing among the top five money winners in nine of his last 11 tournaments, he is leading the pack in the race for the Vardon Trophy, which goes to the pro golfer who averages the fewest strokes per round...
...course seemed to suit his careful, never long, rarely short style. Brookline was chosen because it was the place where Francis Ouimet, an unheralded 20-year-old ex-caddy, stunned the golfing world 50 years ago by beating the great Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, thus ending forever Britain's domination of the game. It is a dainty, tidy course, only 6,870 yds. long, but for the Open the U.S. Golf Association turned it into something resembling the South Dakota Badlands...
Died. John Henry Taylor, 91, Britain's grand old man of golf and five-time British Open champion, a fierce yet always gentlemanly competitor who with Countrymen Harry Vardon and James Braid dominated the game in the early 1900s and led in the founding of the Professional Golfers' Association of Great Britain; in Northam, Devon...
This fresh insight into his own character shakes him. At the dedication of Vardon Hall he delivers a fumbling speech: "So much that has been written would have been better left unprinted." A coterie of his friends then stage a romp that confirms the worst suspicions of the natives. Ma Curry prepares to expose Sands, but before she can make a move, Sands threatens her with counter-exposures, and then dies of a heart attack...