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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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2017-12-19
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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.
The sentence "most of us ... a second thought to" in the first paragraph explains that the tee is______.
选项
A、portable
B、inexpensive
C、unimpressive
D、easy to catch
答案
C
解析
推断题。根据题干关键词定位到第一段。引句意为“对于这种东西,我们大多数人 都是一把一把地抓,或者花几美分买一只,然后把它们塞进口袋里,不会为它们多费心 思”,引号前面提到The simple thing to which he refers is the humble golf tee,所以所选的 词应该与文中的simple和humble意思相近,故C项“给人印象不深的,不惹人注意的” 为正确答案。A项“便携式的”,B项“便宜的”,D项“容易抓的”,均与题意不符。
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