Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sale of golf balls. If he is employed by a country club of average wealth and size, the average professional's revenue from teaching, the sale of golf equipment and the concession for shining the members' clubs amounts to about $5,000 a year. In the winter months, when the majority of the 2,000,000 golfers in the U. S. turn their hands to bridge and the radio, the majority of the jobless professionals go south. Some are hired to accompany rich club members to their winter playgrounds. Some find comfortable berths at flourishing hotels...
...golf professional. Not only does it give him an opportunity to maintain a competitive edge to his game but here is his chance to observe at close range the better-than-average professionals-topnotchers like Harry Cooper, Horton Smith, Johnny Revolta, Henry Pic-ard-who play in the winter circuit because i) they are on the payroll ($5,000 to $10,000 a year) of U. S. sporting-goods manufacturers to publicize their products, and 2) they usually win from $3,000 to $6,000 in prize money during the tour. But most of all, the average pro knows that...
...larger group than ever started off this year. For fresh in the minds of many was the fabulous feat of Ralph Guldahl, who, debt-laden and jobless, started out on the grapefruit circuit last winter with borrowed clubs and a wheezing jalopy, won $3,500, went on to win the U. S. Open championship last summer and wound up the year with $8,600 in prize money, a lucrative winter job at the Miami-Biltmore and a potential 1938 income of some $25,000 from endorsing golf equipment, exhibition matches, magazine articles and other pickings & perquisites that fall...
...last week the winter troupers had reached Los Angeles for the high spot of the season-the $5,000 Los Angeles Open, sponsored by the local Times. Warming up for the opening round, on the sunny municipal links at Griffith Park, the top-notch golfers of the U. S., as well as the obscure hopefuls, experienced more than their usual pre-tournament "yips" (Jitters). For this was the No. i tournament of the West Coast and, although it was almost midway in the winter circuit, it was the beginning of a new year and a new race for money-winning...
...Snead made the great come-up. A million or more U. S. sport addicts now agree with the Virginia hillbillies, and some experts, notably Gene Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones and Sarazen eras. By the time...