Word: golfer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Foremost golfer, probably of all time . . . winner of open and amateur championships of Great Britain and the United States . . . [refused] to accept a gift of $50,000 to buy a home . . . unofficial ambassador . . . retiring nature...
...Smokehouse Monthly, ". . . dedicated to all glorious guzzlers, woozy warblers, rakes, scallawags, and other good people who still be lieve in the joy of living." The "smoke house" in the masthead is drawn to re semble a backhouse. Strangely out of keeping with its unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful magazine of regional appeal in the Northwest. It was started in 1927 chiefly as a hobby, and partly because Brother Roscoe Fawcett was onetime state golf champion. Whiz Bang had competition of a sort in the older, equally unchaste Jim Jam Jems. When, in 1928, Jim Jam Jems...
...Golfer Robert Tyre Jones...
...about all I wanted in the way of hard work in the game. ... I felt that my profession required more of my time and effort, leaving golf ... a means of obtaining recreation and enjoyment. ... I have decided upon a step which I think ought to be explained to the golfers of this country. ... I certainly shall never become a professional golfer. But since I am no longer a competitor I feel free to act entirely outside the amateur rule. ... I expect to return to the practice of my profession unhampered by the necessity of keeping my golf up to championship...
...being completed. Of this stimulating paradox Jones is well aware. And he knows from experience as well as from theory that there will be many a man among the 32 qualified capable of scoring a 72 or better, that 72 or better is hard for the most mechanically perfect golfer to beat in an 18-hole match. In the Amateur one must play two 18-hole matches per day for three days to reach the 36-hole final. "They are all tough enough and getting tougher every year," said Jones last month of championships in general...