Word: yales
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When the Ivy League Championship and NCAA Qualifying tournaments were played at Yale last year, it also rained, and the Crimson fared poorly. On Saturday, the linksters once again succumbed to the combination of downpour and architect Charles Blair MacDonald's penal layout...
Upon his return to Chicago he began practicing on what had been Camp Douglas during the Civil War. using the leftover ration cans as cups. In 1895 he designed the Chicago Golf Club. Yale is one of MacDonald's masterpieces, one of the premier university courses, and is ranked in Golf Digest magazine's Top One Hundred Courses...
...common consent, the most spectacular hole at Yale is the ninth, a 220-yd. par-three that calls for a tee shot from an elevated promontory that must carry over the water below to a split-level, slipper-shaped green. The narrow green is encircled by trees...
Both crews went on to lose to Yale, and for the first time in history, the Radcliffe varsity failed to make the finals in the Eastern Sprints. Luckily for the women in black, the finals they didn't make were never held due to unrowable conditions in Pittsfield. Mass.. but the memory of that awful heat still lingers...
Many coaches would have called the Radcliffe heavyweight crew's 1978 season a "rebuilding year," citing the loss of all but three of the oarswomen from the 1977 eight that finished second to Yale in the Sprints. First-year coach Carie Graves, however, made no excuses. And no promises...