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"It’s such a simple thing," said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association.
"It’s such a simple thing," said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association.
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2016-01-30
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"It’s such a simple thing," said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association. "I’m amazed that so many people spend so much time and energy on trying to change it." The simple thing to which he refers is the humble golf tee, a peg made of wood that most of us grab by the handful or buy for a few pennies each, stick in our pockets, and don’t give a second thought to.
The road to the tee began with a Boston-area dentist named George F. Grant, who received a patent in 1899 for "an Improvement in Golf-Tees." Grant’s tees consisted of a small piece of rubber tubing attached to a tapered wooden peg to be pushed into the ground. The rubber held the ball, and yielded when the club contacted it. He had them produced by a nearby manufacturing concern and gave them out to his friends but never tried to sell or market them.
That fell to William Lowell—another tooth doctor, coincidentally—who created the Reddy Tee in 1921. It was a one-piece implement of solid wood, painted red at the top so it could be easily found and cleverly named. He paid Walter Hagen and trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood to endorse and use the device, and it was a commercial success, with more than $100,000 in sales by the time it was patented in 1925.
The introduction of the oversize metal driver in the 1980s led most golfers to adopt longer tees to go along with the larger and higher sweet spot of those clubs. The USGA has banned tees longer than 4 inches, a height that is well past the point of diminishing returns. Even back in the 1960s, Jack Nicklaus understood the value of teeing the ball high, which he explained by saying, "Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt."
Golfers who have fairly steep swings(like me)break a lot of tees. We can only envy the legendary Canadian pro Moe Norman, who could play for weeks with a single tee. When his playing partners asked him how he managed to stripe his drives without dislodging the peg, he answered, "I’m trying to hit the ball, not the tee." So are we all, Moe. So are we all.
According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is NOT true of the Reddy Tee?
选项
A、It is painted red at the top to befit its name.
B、Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood brought the patent.
C、It is invented by a dentist who tried to sell or market it.
D、The inventor spent about 4 years in obtaining a patent on it.
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词定位到第三段。第三段末句指出“洛厄尔花钱请沃尔特·哈根和高尔夫特技表演大师乔·柯克伍德宣传和使用该器械”,故B项“沃尔特·哈根和乔·柯克伍德买了这个专利”不符合文意,为本题的正确答案。根据第三段第二句“这是件由实木制成的一体式器械,顶部漆成了红色,这样就可以轻松找到它,而且与它的名字正好相称”可知,A项符合文意。第三段句首的tooth doctor,created与C项的dentist,invented属于同义替换:且根据第二段结尾的never tried to sell or market them和第三段首句的That fell to…进一步判断C项符合文意。文中指出发明时间为1921年,获得专利时间为1925年,所以D项符合文意,但不选。
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