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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’
“It’s such a simple thing,”said John Spitzer,managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association.“I’
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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 usgrab 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 in1 899 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 in1921.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$1 00000 in sales by the time it was patented in 1 925.
The introduction of the oversize metal driver in the 1 980s 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 1 960s,Jack Nicklaus under stood 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.
Jack Nicklaus believes that golfers get longer tees to elevate the ball because ________,
选项
A、the longer tees are matched to the longer gulf clubs
B、the ball is easy to get dirty in the soil than in the air
C、the height far exceeds the point of diminishing returns
D、the higher sweet spot is helpful for golfers to hit the ball further
答案
D
解析
本题为细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第四段。题干中的because问原因,在文中找到关键词explain“解释”。解释的内容是“在多年的经验中,我发现空气产生的阻力要比泥土小”,故D项“更高的击球点有助于高尔夫球手把球击得更远”是该句的同义替换,为本题的正确答案。A项“更长的球钉与更长的高尔夫球杆相配”并不是原文杰克·尼克劳斯的观点,B项“球在泥土中比在空气中更容易脏”是对该段末句的曲解,C项“高度远远超过回报递减点”是USGA禁止的高度,并不是题干的原因,故三项均排除。
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