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Malcolm Campbell, Ultimate Golf Techniques New York: DK Publishing Inc., 1996, p.. Tiger Woods with the Editors of Golf Digest, How I Play Golf New York: Warner Books, 2001, p.. Tiger Wo

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Hole 1

1 Randy Voorhees, As Hogan Said The 389 Best Things Ever

Said About How to Play Golf (New York: Simon & Schuster,

2000), p 107

2 Bob Kievra, ‘‘18 Million Ways to Say Thanks,’’ Worcester,

Mas-sachusetts Telegram & Gazette, September 22, 2000 With

per-mission

3 Voorhees, As Hogan Said, p 106.

Hole 2

1 Maryann Keller, Rude Awakening, The Rise, Fall and Struggle

for Recovery of General Motors (New York: William Morrow

and Company, 1989)

2 Ibid, pp 238–239

3 Bill Laimbeer, WJR Radio interview, The Paul W Smith Show,

October 29, 1997

4 Troy Aikman, ABC-TV interview, Regis and Kathy Lee Show,

August 22, 1997

Hole 3

1 Michael Hiestand, ‘‘NBC’s Miller Fills Void Left by Golf Stars,’’

USA Today, March 7, 2003, p 2C.

2 Noel M Tichy, The Leadership Engine (New York: Harper

Col-lins, 1997), p 107

3 General Electric Values Reprinted with permission

232 Notes

4 General Motors Values Reprinted with permission

5 Joan Magretta, What Management Is: How It Works and Why

It’s Everyone’s Business (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002),

pp 202–203

Hole 4

1 Malcolm Campbell, Ultimate Golf Techniques (New York: DK

Publishing Inc., 1996), p 197

2 Robin McMillan, The Golfer’s Home Companion (New York:

Simon & Schuster, 1993), p 28

3 The USGA, 2002–2003 Official Rules of Golf (Chicago: Triumph

Books, 2002), p.53

4 Vince Flynn, Term Limits (New York: Pocket Books, 1999), p.

154

5 ‘‘The Guy in the Glass,’’ as written by Peter ‘‘Dale’’ Wimbrow,

Sr in 1934, and presented here with our thanks

Hole 5

1 Joel Barker, The Power of Vision (Video) Charthouse Learning,

1991

2 Deborah Graham, ‘‘Lose the First-Tee Jitters,’’ Senior Golfer,

June 1997, p 92

3 Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (New York:

Washing-ton Square Press, 1963)

Hole 6

1 Dale Concannon, Wise Words for Golfers (New York: Thomas

Dunne Books, 2000), p 235

2 Ibid, p.241

3 Alex Taylor, III, ‘‘GM: Why They Might Break Up America’s

Biggest Company,’’ Fortune, April 29, 1996, p 84.

4 B.C Forbes, ‘‘Editor’s Comment,’’ Forbes, October 7, 1996 Re-printed by permission of Forbes Magazine 2003 Forbes, Inc

5 Malcolm Campbell, Ultimate Golf Techniques (New York: DK

Publishing Inc., 1996), p 74

6 Randy Voorhees, As Hogan Said The 389 Best Things Ever

Said About How to Play Golf (New York: Simon & Schuster,

2000), p 104

Hole 7

1 Doug Sanders, ‘‘My Shot,’’ Golf Digest, August 2003, p 114.

Hole 8

1 Tiger Woods (with the Editors of Golf Digest), How I Play Golf

(New York: Warner Books, 2001), p 85

Hole 9

1 Christine Brennan, ‘‘Pure and Simple, Golf Should Be Put on

Top of Sports Pedestal,’’ USA Today, October 3, 2002, p 3C.

2 Tamara Kaplan, ‘‘The Tylenol Crisis: How Effective Public Re-lations Saved Johnson & Johnson Pennsylvania State Univer-sity Web site: www.personal.psu.edu, 1998, p.3

Hole 10

1 Tiger Woods (with the Editors of Golf Digest), How I Play Golf

(New York: Warner Books, 2001), p 257

2 Bob Rotella, Golf Is a Game of Confidence (New York: Simon &

Schuster, 1996)

3 John McCormick, ‘‘Even Tiger Needs a Trainer,’’ Newsweek,

December 9, 1996, p 61

Hole 11

1 Michael Bamberger, ‘‘A Woman Among Men,’’ Sports

Illus-trated, February 24, 2003, p 64.

234 Notes

2 Ron Shapiro and Mark Jankowski, The Power of Nice (New

York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998)

3 Robert Browning, A History of Golf (London: JM Dent & Sons,

1955)

Hole 12

1 ‘‘World’s Most Dangerous Golf Courses,’’ Men’s Health, April

1997

2 Peggy Noonan, ‘‘Courage Under Fire,’’ Wall Street Journal,

Oc-tober 5, 2001, editorial page

3 Peter Koestenbaum, Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness

(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991), p 92

Hole 13

1 Bob Kievra, ‘‘18 Million Ways to Say Thanks,’’ Worcester,

Mas-sachusetts Telegram & Gazette, September 18, 2000 With

per-mission

Hole 14

1 Bernard L Rosenbaum, How to Motivate Today’s Worker (New

York: McGraw-Hill, 1982)

2 Edward J Dwyer, ‘‘Seven Paradoxes of Leadership,’’ Journal for

Quality and Participation, March 1994.

Hole 16

1 Joel Barker, The Power of Vision (Video) Charthouse Learning,

1991

Hole 17

1 Dennis N.T Perkins, Leading at the Edge (New York:

AMA-COM, 2000), p 40

Hole 18

1 Bob Rotella, Golf Is a Game of Confidence (New York: Simon &

Schuster, 1996), p 237

19th Hole

1 Dale Concannon, Wise Words for Golfers (New York: Thomas

Dunne Books, 2000), p 151

2 Ibid, p 90

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Golf Is a Way of Life with a

Language All Its Own

Ace A hole in one

Airmail the Green Ball flies over the green without touching it

Amateur One who does not receive compensation for playing the game

Back Nine The last nine holes of an 18-hole course

Birdie A score of one under the par for a hole

Bogey A score of one over the par for a hole

Bunker A hazard filled with sand or grass that is placed where a fairway shot may end You are not allowed to practice swing or ground your club in a bunker Sand bunkers are commonly referred to as sand traps

Caddie A person who carries a player’s clubs and helps the player determine distances, club selection, and the line for put-ting

Chip A low running shot played from near the edge of the green toward the hole

Champions Tour Professional Golf Association (PGA) competi-tive tour for male golfers age 50 and over

Course Rating The degree of difficulty of a course

Cut The score at the end of 36 holes of a 72-hole tournament required to play the final 36 holes

Divot Turf removed by the clubhead when a shot is played

Dogleg A fairway that hooks to the left or right, obscuring the green from the tee

238 Glossary

Draw A deliberate stroke for a right-handed player that causes the ball to curve from right to left in its flight Opposite of a fade

Drive A shot from the tee area

Driver A golf club with a long shaft, large head, and little loft used for driving the ball for maximum distance off the tee

Driving Range Area set aside for practice

Eagle A score of two under the par for a hole

Fade A deliberate stroke for a right-handed player that causes the ball to curve from left to right in its flight Opposite of a draw

Fairway The manicured playing area between the tee and the green that offers the player the best chance for success Also known as ‘‘the short grass.’’

Feathery Early type of golf ball made by filling a leather pouch with boiled feathers

Front Nine The first nine holes of an 18-hole course

Green The area of very short grass surrounding the hole where the player must use a putter to hit the ball

Green in Regulation The number of shots you are expected to play before getting your ball on the green Always two shots less than par for the hole

Guttie This ball was introduced in 1848 It was made of gutta percha, a rubberlike substance from the latex of a Malaysian tree species Less expensive than the feathery

Hacker A poor golfer

Handicap The average score of a player set against par

Hazard Permanent features of a golf course designed to obstruct play, such as sand traps, ponds, rivers, and trees

Hole General term for the area between tee and green Also, the specific target on the green

Hook Unintentional stroke that causes the ball to bend sharply to the left for a right-handed player

Interlocking Grip To hold the club such that the little finger of one hand is wrapped around the forefinger of the other

Lie Position of the ball at rest

Links Golf course within four miles of the sea coast

Loft The angle of the clubface to the ground Zero degree loft is perpendicular to the ground

Lost Ball Any ball that cannot be located once struck

LPGA Ladies Professional Golf Association

Making the Cut Qualifying for subsequent rounds in a tourna-ment

Match Play Form of competition in which the number of holes won or lost by a player or team, rather than the number of strokes taken, determines the winner

strokes a player takes to complete a round is compared with other players’ scores for the round Commonly called stroke play

Mulligan Allowing a player to replay any one shot on a hole without counting the shot replayed

Nineteenth Hole The clubhouse bar after playing 18 holes

Par Standard score for a hole based on the length of the hole and the number of strokes a very good player would expect to take

to complete it in normal conditions

Pin Pole, with a flag attached, that marks the hole on each green

Pitch Lofted shot to the green with little run at the end of the ball’s flight

PGA Professional Golf Association

Professional One who is compensated for playing the game

Putt Act of hitting the ball on the green with a putter

Rough Area of taller, unmown grass alongside the fairway, which punishes an off-line shot

Round 18 holes of golf

Rubber Core Ball Revolutionized golf game at the turn of the twentieth century Superseded the guttie Modern balls are en-cased in either balata (soft) or surlyn (hard) covers The balls differ in distance, spin, and durability

Sandbagger A hustler who maintains an artificially high handi-cap in order to win bets

Scratch Golfer A golfer whose handicap equals the par score of the golf course

Short Game Chipping, pitching, and putting

240 Glossary

Slice Unintentional stroke that causes the ball to curve violently

to the right for a right-handed player

Tee Closely mown area from which the first stroke on a hole is played Also, a small peg on which the golf ball is placed

Up and Down An approach shot plus a single putt from any-where off the green

USGA The United States Golf Association, golf’s governing body

in the USA and Mexico

Vardon Trophy Awarded annually to the professional golfer with the lowest scoring average on the PGA tour

Whiff Missing the ball during a swing

Yips To miss simple putts because of nerves