Sport: Invitation to Trouble

Somebody in Britain had made skeptical sounds about low U.S. golf scores (like Byron Nelson's phenomenal 68.3 average last year). The scores were phony, said this Briton, because they were made on easy courses, with the ball teed up on the fairway. No U.S. golfer could say him nay,*but somebody in Britain had to pay for saying it.

Britain's Dick Burton was invited to the U.S. to see whether British golfers could do any better. Burton, a lanky, genial, blue-eyed pro, started explaining as soon as he arrived in the U.S. Said he: "I wish...

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