Word: vik
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Yesterday's match gave Donovan an opportunity to rest some of his regular players, as Greis spelled captain Alex Vik. Before the match, Donovan was not aware that the teams would be playing match play, which pits the individuals in each threesome against each other on a hole by hole basis. Greis consequently found herself playing "head to head," as she put it, against MIT's Jaime Flatbush on the tesselated 6218 vard Donald Ross layout...
...tests of golf in Spain are Nueva Andalucia near Marbella and Sotogrande in Cadiz. Both were designed by Robert Trent Jones along the Costa del Sol. Angel migual is the pro at Nueva Andalucia, which played host to the World Cup in 1973 when Nicklaus and Johnny Miller won. Vik shot a 70 the first time he played this course just next to a bullring and the Sierra Blanca mountains...
...Vik finished third in the Sherry Cup, an international competition held at Sotogrande. Sotogrande is a breathtaking course hewn out of the cork trees that grow in the lush valley of the Guadiare River. Two continents can be seen from the course as the misty silhouette of the Rock of Gibralter looms 22 miles out into the Mediterranean...
...professional of Sotogrande is Henry Cotton, the former British Open winner who was previously the pro at the Penina golf course in Portugal. Vik finished 35th in the World Amateur Championship played at Penina in October. Cotton fled to Sotogrande after the recent leftwing takeover in Portugal when his books were audited and the Penina caddies siezed the clubhouse after forming a revolutionary brigade...
Whether he is playing in this Andalusian golfing paradise or on New England's windburned fairways. Vik seems to come up with the clutch round. His second round 69 yesterday was not quite good enough, but nevertheless, ole Captain Ajax...