He died on Sunday pursuing his favourite pastime of pitch and putt on his local course where he was club chairman. |
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You may face a longer putt by not being able to work the ball closer to the hole, but you will be safely on the green. |
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Steve Ryser and Mike Franklin sunk a long putt each on holes nine and eighteen respectively. |
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His putt never troubles the hole and it slips a few feet past for another difficult putt. |
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I had to sit in the clubhouse and nervously watch as Michael holed about a 40-foot putt on No.17 for par to stay within one shot of me. |
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I wasn't at the green when he holed the putt and punched the air four or five times, but it remains one of my strongest memories, even now. |
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After he holed that putt he stayed calm, kept his gum working and just raised one finger. |
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He missed a short putt on the fifth, and after holing out he dropped the ball on the green and in his frustration made a practice putt. |
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Woods opts to putt from off the green and just scrapes past the right edge, leaving a tiddler for his par. |
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After slicing his tee ball into the trees at 18, he pitched out and barely sneaked a six-foot bogey putt in the side door. |
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His final birdie putt pulled him level with defending champion who failed to nail his own birdie putt for victory. |
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I made a great putt on the 14th hole, a really snaky 30-footer, that really got me going again. |
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I bunkered my drive then fluffed my next shot, but then I rolled in a 25-foot putt for a par. |
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But after birdies at the 13th, 15th and 16th drew him level, Kennedy bunkered his approach to the 18th and missed his par putt from six feet. |
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He bunkered his tee shot, exploded out to 10 feet, missed his par putt and then missed a tiddler. |
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They agonise over every shot, crouching on the green as they plan the putt that could win them that precious round of golf. |
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Fulke pulls his game back to all square at the 16th after Love narrowly misses a putt from the edge of the green. |
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At the inter-house meet that year he won the javelin and putt shot events and was placed third in the discus. |
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In the under-17 events, James Nagle won gold in the hammer and shot putt contests. |
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Golfers of various handicaps were asked to putt on the greens and choose the faster green. |
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Jonathan Fullam was also a winner when taking the gold medal for shot putt at the open sports in St Abbans. |
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I would call myself a streaky putter and I didn't putt well last year, apart from on two or three occasions. |
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There are multiple humps to get over, corners to putt round, small pipes to putt through and an impossible basket to putt into. |
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So when Mark Hensby tapped in his par putt on the second playoff hole to clinch his victory at the Deere, he also earned a spot at Royal Troon. |
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He was so tired after holing the winning putt and putting the clubs away that they were not brought out again until Tuesday. |
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They don't step up to a long first putt thinking fearfully of a possible three-putt. |
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He had to putt from three yards to tie when the other player picked up his opponent's ball marker rather than forcing him to putt out. |
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During a round last fall, he had a 20-foot putt that didn't matter, so I told him to pick up his ball. |
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In a round that included three birdies and seven pars, she also claimed near pins on holes eight and fifteen, and the long putt on hole nine. |
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He had played pitch and putt by then but, he admits, golf is an altogether different proposition. |
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When Stewart's final putt went in, he gave it a full-throttle fist pump, then embraced a leaping Hicks. |
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His chip was a little too tentative, but to his relief he holed that putt too for another par. |
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They were in place of long evenings, the light fading as I putt on the worn barely live grass of the putting green. |
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After that, I head back to the putting green, where I'll putt for another 10 or 15 minutes until it's time to tee off. |
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Fletcher sank the most amazing long putt on hole nine, and Riley modestly claimed the eighteenth. |
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However, putt of the day came from Pidcock at the eighteenth as he stroked the ball uphill around 50 ft and into the hole. |
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I thought I might even have a double eagle, and I was so pumped up about it, I missed the eagle putt from about 10 feet. |
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Home with two mighty shots, Murray downed a nine-foot putt to be all square. |
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Some of the greens were so steeply sloped that the ball didn't stop, and you had to get your driver out to putt it back uphill. |
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I think this time round I'm just going to be concentrating on doing some throwing events, like the javelin, the discus and the shot putt. |
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A wedge brought him to within 15 feet of the pin, from where his first putt pulled up short. |
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If a player gets too aggressive on a downhill putt on one of those greens, his next shot could be a chip or a pitch from the fairway. |
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The first putt lipped out, and I just walked around and tapped it in from about a foot. |
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Could there have been a putt lipped out that could have made the difference? |
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Michael Campbell, meanwhile, makes a meal of his birdie putt on the ninth, and is suddenly facing a tricky five-footer to stay at five under. |
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A good drill for the practice green is to lay down tees beyond the hole and putt to them. |
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For the final day, Torrance has picked an outfit identical to the one he wore while sinking that putt 17 years ago. |
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I like to see a player putt the ball off the center of the putter, not back toward the heel or up toward the toe. |
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She closed with birdies at two par-fives, on the sixth and ninth, and drained a nine-foot putt at the par-four eighth. |
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At the next, he drained a 40-foot curling putt to go one over par, and raised his arms to the heavens, a la Faldo. |
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The composure with which he drained the winning putt in the Walker Cup five years ago was the mark of a man who responds well to pressure. |
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The leader holes a putt from 10 feet for par, despite clearly mishitting it. |
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His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side. |
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He got to the turn in 35 two under par and then canned a monster of a putt of around 70 feet at the 10th to move to three under. |
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In today's singles, it is a matter of when rather than if the winning putt is sunk. |
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Scott was in the same bunker and got out and sank a good putt for a birdie. |
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And then, just when he had reason to be content with a display of uncharacteristic tenacity, he missed an easy putt for par on the last. |
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If you take a mulligan, then the second putt is performed as to how you aimed and powered it. |
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He followed the putt into the hole with his first air punch of the day. |
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He can do most things on the golf course drive it for miles, hit the most precise of irons shots, pitch and chip with the most sublime touches, putt like an angel. |
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The uphill putt just skirts the left edge and Woods taps in for par. |
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He nearly took an improbable half a point but his final putt lipped out. |
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Some of us may never be able to hit the ball as accurately, powerfully or consistently as a scratch player, but with work, we can realistically hope to putt like one. |
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I noted Tebbutt usually gobbled up any chances, but one that got away came at the sixth, where she missed a winning metre-long par putt after Winter bunkered her second. |
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There was a pitch and putt course across from my house and we all played. |
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Plodding up the 18th, needing just a par to make the cut, he was big with his approach, chipped back and could not drain the putt from eight feet. |
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As the wind increased he kept his score intact, dropping only one shot on the treacherous back nine at 15 seeing a birdie putt the last just lip out. |
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It was one of those gut-wrenching golf tournaments decided with the last putt on the last green before a rookie pro emerged with his maiden victory. |
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We got to the end of the first hole and Warren sank a putt for par. |
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He did manage to sink the putt for a birdie, unlike a fellow competitor in the Jackalope, who after getting nearest the hole, played his next chip shot from further away. |
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I remember I had to make an eight-foot putt for bogey on the first hole. |
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Facing a short putt is like facing a little chip shot with your wedge. |
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When the game originated, golfers would putt with their dominate hand on the bottom of the grip and their weak hand on top of the grip. |
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He learns to call his beloved bubeleh and think of Sam Finkler as a yutz, a groisser putt. |
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Against me, Seve didn't miss a putt under ten feet,' said Montgomerie yesterday, after announcing his pairings for the opening greensomes. |
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There are football pitches, two golf courses, a pitch and putt course and a horse riding school. |
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There are also golf, pitch and putt, hockey, tennis, and athletics clubs in the Cork area. |
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Nicklaus sank his four-foot putt and Jacklin was left with a very missable three-footer to level and force a tie. |
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The man who can smile bravely when his putt is diverted by one of those beastly wormcasts is pure gold right through. |
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Today, the course managers are offering a free ice-cream cone to anyone who can putt the ball up and over the slope with just one stroke. |
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At Augusta a 40-foot uphill or straightish putt is far better than an eight-foot downhiller. |
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Had Leonard's putt sealed the match, this type of behavior would have been inappropriate but moot. |
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If the ball goes a long way past, Palmer could miss the par putt and need two birdies just to get to the uncertainty of a playoff. |
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But once again Heyes left his putt above ground and so the pair of protagonists marched off to the 17th, with Holmes dormie two. |
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Nicklaus then sank his birdie putt, and with a crowd of 8,000 people watching, picked up Jacklin's marker, conceding the putt Jacklin needed to tie the matches. |
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Watson hit a tremendous iron shot from the right hand rough to within ten feet, but could not make the resulting putt, leaving Rose to celebrate the biggest win of his career. |
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The sports include aquatics, athletics, basketball, tenpin bowling, equestrianism, golf, gymnastics, soccer, kayaking, table tennis, pitch and putt and badminton. |
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Pitch and putt would provide a step up for newcomers to the sport. |
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The best bet is McDowell, a little bulldog in matchplay who will forever be known as the hero who sunk the winning putt in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. |
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Hurly Long dropped a birdie putt to give Oregon a one-stroke victory over USC in a playoff at the Itani Homes Collegiate men's golf tournament on Tuesday. |
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