Word: putt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lunch time he was 4 up on Brooke. When they returned for the second 18, Brooke began to creep up until he pulled even at the 27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder and I'm going to cook this putt," he drawled. To the astonishment...
...chatty Jimmy Demaret-in his first Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Few minutes later, along came unheralded Lloyd Mangrum to sink a 30-ft. putt on the home green and chalk up a record-breaking, eight-under-par 64 (32-32), probably the most amazing 18 holes of competitive golf ever played...
Last week, in the St. Petersburg Open, a crowd of 3,000 gathered around the Lakewood Country Club's 18th green to watch the tournament's final putts. Hovering over their balls were U. S. Open Champion Byron Nelson and smiling Jimmy Demaret. Nelson was away. He tapped his ball, sent it into the cup for a birdie 3, a two-under-par 69 and a 54-hole total of 212. Demaret had to sink his four-foot putt to win the tournament...