Word: fairways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While chasing Mr. Woods and coming up just a stroke short, Master Sergio accomplished a remarkable thing: he made the world's best player look old at 23. Here was the Spanish lad, eyes closed, slashing at a ball burrowed behind a tree, then sprinting up the fairway and leaping into the air to see the marvelous result. Here, meanwhile, was the American, eyes glassy, agonizing over 5-ft. putts that have in the past--though not this year--been his bete noire...
Since 1981, Sarazen has joined Nelson and Sam Snead in hitting a ceremonial tee shot to officially start the Masters. He hit his drive this year about 140 yards down the left side of the fairway...
Shalala is by no means the lone woman out there on the fairway, at least not anymore. Networking on the golf course, long a part of doing business for male executives, has in recent years become par for the course for women. More than a fifth of the 26.5 million Americans who play golf are women--an increase of 24% over the past decade, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. And the barriers that once kept them off the links during prime tee times (when the deals get done) have been dropping like Annika Sorenstam's putts...
Conspicuously absent from the strategizing is White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, Clinton's faithful golfing partner, who used to enjoy a long fairway walk and a blue story. "Erskine won't get near this. He doesn't even want to hear about this," says an adviser. "He can't stand this stuff. He shudders." Indeed, he has suffered some internal criticism for this, but this adviser notes that Bowles has vigorously enforced the discipline; the result has been very little comment on the subject from even the most chatty White House staff members. "He has put the fear...
...golfer, you probably know the feeling. You are about to hit your second shot after a decent enough drive when suddenly another drive comes whistling past, rolling much farther down the fairway. You look back at the group behind you with a mixture of annoyance for the impertinence and admiration for the prowess...