Word: putte
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...Memphis, Tenn., Golfer Harvey Thompson solemnly related that after his putt had stopped on the cup's lip, his ball tumbled in when a big fly landed...
When, in the last holes of an important tournament, an able young golfer needs to do no more than equal par, he often blows up. Nelson came closest to doing that last week when he took three putts at the 15th, where two would have given him a birdie. The next three holes he played without a slip. On the 18th, a crowd of 5,000 packed around the green held its breath until he sank his putt, then roared its applause. An amiable, quiet young man who looks faintly like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Nelson took his ball...
Pressagent Cerwin's employer, President Samuel F. B. Morse of Del Monte Properties Co., believes the statement that Golfer Montague, with a simple putt left at the 17th and a par on the 18th for a record 66 on Pebble Beach, picked up his ball and walked off. The 18th hole at Pebble Beach is 550 yd. Golfer Montague is reliably recorded as having been on this green in two shots...
...driven on every hole, sometimes as much as 125 yards, on a course where distance counts, Shute played down the middle of the fairways. Thomson lost the first hole. He caught up to even the match four times. At the 29th, Shute, one up, holed a 30-ft. putt for a winning birdie. The next four holes were halved with steady pars. On the 34th, Thomson, the famed driver, drove into the woods. Shute, famed for his iron shots, hit his second with a spoon. It stopped six feet from the hole, gave him an eagle 3 for match & title...
...eccentrics who followed the two matches. Finally it blew down two huge tents, put up to house a restaurant and the press. From their lounge windows Garden City's older members saw no golf at all. One match ended on the 17th green, when Goodman's putt, whacked with a midiron, failed to roll 30 ft. across the green. The other ended on the nth, when McLean was 8 up on Voigt after 29 holes...