The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Then he played nine imaginary holes of golf, choosing his handicap, his irons, his stance, his opponents, and his weather in detail, but the green of the links seemed faded in the light of his business worries.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

Perhaps golf, with a fashionable companion -- but he'd lost his clubs, hadn't played in years.

Some early sources refer to pall mall being played over a large distance ( as in golf ), however an image in Strutt's 1801 book clearly shows a croquet-like ground billiards game ( balls on ground, hoop, bats and peg ) being played over a, garden-sized distance.

Two forms of the game, association croquet and golf croquet, have rules that are agreed internationally and are played in many countries around the world.

A good caddy is aware of the challenges and obstacles of the golf course being played, along with the best strategy in playing it.

While playing golf one afternoon he realized that it might be fun for the kids on his playground if they played " golf " with frisbees.

* Hickory golf, a form of golf played with hickory-shafted golf clubs

Unable to cycle around Washington, D. C. as President, Wilson took to playing golf, although he played with more enthusiasm than skill.

His interest in golf brought him into intimate contact with one of his biographers Bernard Darwin, who said that Grace played golf " with a mixture of keen seriousness and cheerful noisiness ".

While the Fairbanks men played golf together, Crawford was left either with Pickford or alone.

Snead decided to deliberately lose the televised match, played under the ' World Championship Golf ' series, during its final holes, after he discovered he had too many golf clubs in his bag on the 12th hole.

Nielsen was a fan of golf, and he often played it in his free time.

Other sports such as tennis, golf, and basketball are also commonly played in Suriname.

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In later interviews, McCormack listed five attributes that made Palmer especially marketable: his good looks ; his relatively modest background ( his father was a greenskeeper before rising to be club professional and Latrobe was a humble club ); the way he played golf, taking risks and wearing his emotions on his sleeve ; his involvement in a string of exciting finishes in early televised tournaments ; and his affability.

Moore County has many golf resorts in the Southern Pines / Pinehurst area, and has played host to the 1996 and 2001 Women's U. S. Opens as well as the 1999 and 2005 Men's U. S. Opens.

He played on the Stanford golf team with a two handicap.

By the early 1910s, Jefferson began traveling frequently to Dallas, where he met and played with fellow blues musician Lead Belly.

The two girls often played together beside the beck ( stream ) at the bottom of the garden, much to their mothers ' annoyance, because they frequently came back with wet feet and clothes.

Early clavichords frequently had many notes played on each string, even going so far as the keyed monochord — an instrument with only one string — though most clavichords were triple-or double-fretted.

During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

Dragonetti frequently played on a three string double bass tuned G-D-A from top to bottom.

In movies, Stalin was often played by Mikheil Gelovani and, less frequently, by Aleksei Dikiy.

Indeed, in the lead up to the 1949 federal election, Fadden played a key role in the defeat of the Chifley Labor government, frequently making inflammatory claims about the " socialist " nature of the Labor Party, which Menzies could then " clarify " or repudiate as he saw fit, thus appearing more " moderate ".

Orchestras frequently tune to a concert A ( usually A440 ) played by the oboe.

The blinds exist because Omaha and Texas hold ' em are frequently played without antes, allowing a player to fold his hand without placing a bet.

Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win.

Teamplay is also frequently played with one or another mod.

In frequency analysis, the program simply identifies the most frequently played move.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

* In Middlemarch by George Eliot, the game is referenced numerous times as an aristocratic pursuit played frequently at the Vincy residence.

A character called McGoonagall frequently appears in The Goon Show, alternately played by Milligan and Peter Sellers.

The role played by polarization in the operation of liquid crystal displays ( LCDs ) is also frequently apparent to the wearer of polarizing sunglasses, which may reduce the contrast or even make the display unreadable.

Introduced to Ireland in the late 19th century, there are today hundreds of Irish polka tunes, which are most frequently played on the fiddle or button accordion.

They are played by solo instrumentalists or by bands / ensembles, most frequently with lead instruments such as accordion fiddle, diatonic accordion, hardingfele and nyckelharpa.

Oscar frequently played ethnic parts, including the Sudanese doctor in The Four Feathers ( 1939 ).

She frequently commented on her admiration for Lee Grant, with whom she had played several dramatic scenes.

Pinafore as one of the most frequently played Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history.

" When shortly thereafter Foss brought to Milford a scheme for publishing a group of essays by well-known musicians on composers whose works were frequently played on the radio, Milford may have thought of it as less music-related than education-related.