Tradition, weather collide for US Open at Merion ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) ā Under bright sunshine and a gentle breeze, Sergio Garcia signed autographs near the tee box at the 16th hole during his final practice round for the U.S. Open. He then sent his drive in the direction of one of those charming red wicker baskets that sit atop the flagpoles, the white ball coming to rest nicely in the middle of the fairway with nary a smudge of mud.
June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Tradition of Merion meets a traditional golf foe _ weather _ as US Open returns after 32 years ARDMORE, Pa. ā Under bright sunshine and a gentle breeze, Sergio Garcia signed autographs near the tee box at the 16th hole during his final practice round for the U.S. Open. He then sent his drive in the direction of one of those charming red wicker baskets that sit atop the flagpoles, the white ball coming to rest nicely in the middle of the fairway with nary a smudge of mud.
June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Tradition, weather collide for US Open at Merion - NBC40.net ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) - Under bright sunshine and a gentle breeze, Sergio Garcia signed autographs near the tee box at the 16th hole during his final practice round for the U.S. Open. He then sent his drive in the direction of one of those charming red wicker baskets that sit atop the flagpoles, the white ball coming to rest nicely in the middle of the fairway with nary a smudge of mud.
June 13, 2013 - NBC40 South Jersey
Conan O Brien in The Associated Press This is the only way I can sing Thom Yorke songs, as a 19th-century chimney sweep with a top hat and a smudge on my cheek,O'Brien said.
Paul Tibbets in Reuters South Africa If Dante had been with us on the plane, he would have been terrified,Tibbets said later. "The city we had seen so clearly in the sunlight a few minutes before was now an ugly smudge. It had completely disappeared under this awful blanket...
Wade Phillips in SI.com To quote me as saying black mark, that's an Eastern term. That's a Connecticut term,Phillips said. "I might use smudge or something like that from Texas. ...... I'm sure he misconstrued what I said."