Word: curls
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...across the low platform of the green 15 feet beyond the hole. Von Elm's ball went a foot further. He leaned over to putt and then looked up; the whirling of a camera had disturbed him. There was a reverent silence as he tapped his ball, watched it curl slowly toward the cup, and stop, unmiraculously this time, a yard beyond it. Burke, with three putts for a win, signalled to the cameras to take his picture. Obliging, he putted three times, won the U. S. Open after 144 holes, 589 strokes...
...thwacking it mightily into the toughest gale, watching it hover and dip and rise again, often to soar away like a homing bird into the trees to some unplayable nest. They are putting it diligently into the cup, diligently and boldly-boy, she's in!-oop-a curl and a flip and out pops Big Boy for another try. ... It was a disappointment in May; it will be hated in June; and by July it will be tyranny. You have literally commanded the players who worked and slaved for years to break 90, to work and slave quite...