Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Sport: Gallipoli Becomes Waterloo
Saddened but stubbornly loyal, 15,000 British golf fans turned out on the Lindrick course at Worksop, near Sheffield, last week to watch their Ryder Cup pros wind up what promised to be a Gallipoli of golf. After a devastating afternoon of Scotch Foursomes (in which partners alternate strokes on the same ball), Britain's best were behind 3 to 1. The visiting Americans were favored to breeze through all of the eight remaining singles matches.
While the gallery was still looking for the worst, Britain's Captain Dai Rees, of Wales, and his men started to read the Lindrick course as comfortably as if...
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