Word: putte
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...Jackie, temperamentally a fine match player in her amateur days, has found it a little hard to settle down to tight-lipped medal play where each stroke counts. Canny Scotsman Tommy Armour taught her a few tricks of the old-pro trade. Moans Jackie: "When somebody drops a long putt against me, I'm not supposed to compliment her at all. Just turn and walk off to the next tee." Jackie, who gave up a $185-a-month job with Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Honolulu for the faster money on the fairways, has been a quick study...
...Mitchell, having a miserable day on the golf course, disconsolately whacked the ball with his putter from the 15th tee. The ball hit at mid-fairway, took a couple of bounces, skittered on to the green, and trickled into the cup for a hole in one and the longest putt on record: 576 feet...
...sinks a long putt, she is apt to fall to her knees and praise Allah; when she misses a short one, she may exclaim, "I feel like nuts & bolts rattling together." On a hot day, she once gathered a circle of women around her on the golf course while she shed her petticoat; another time she startled the gallery with a highland fling. She once insisted on being paid her tournament money in one-dollar bills ("It makes me feel richer"). She operates like a woman whose life is a constant campaign to astound people...
...Lloyd Mangrum, durable and determined, returned to the tough tournament grind convinced that "golf is a cinch compared to what I went through in the war." His first year back, playing for the U.S. Open title, golf's most coveted prize, Mangrum coolly sank a 75-ft. putt in the final round to stay in the running, then won a tense triple playoff from Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi...
...national amateur golf championship (at 47, he is the oldest U.S. amateur champ in history), won the House seat vacated by Democratic Representative Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who was elected U.S. Senator. When Eisenhower campaigned through Washington, Westland, for "good luck," gave him the putter which sank the winning putt in the national amateur tournament...