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After 112 years, golf is once again an Olympic sport. Before that, it was an official part of the Games only in 1900 and 1904.<\/p>\nAfter 112 years, golf is once again an Olympic sport. Before that, it was an official part of the Games only in 1900 and 1904.<\/p>\n
Too bad it wasn\u2019t part of the 1936 Olympics. Nancy Drew would have been a shoo-in for the team, as evidenced by her performance in a hotel golf tournament in the 1937 edition of The Haunted Bridge<\/em>.<\/p>\n Nancy manages to win the tournament despite an injured wrist, accusations of cheating and the unwanted attention of Mortimer Bartescue.<\/p>\n Ah, yes, Mortimer Bartescue. That name has stuck in my brain ever since I read this book as a child. He is a braggart, he cheats at golf and, even more concerning to Nancy\u2026<\/p>\n She rather distrusted his claim that he came from an excellent family. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, that will be cleared up easily enough when Ned looks for Mortimer in the Social Register.<\/p>\n But I digress. <\/p>\n Let\u2019s get back to the golf tournament where, according to the tournament chairman, the competition has never been as keen as it is this year. Some of the best women golfers in the state are entering the tournament. <\/p>\n Naturally, Nancy easily qualifies. Then she wins her preliminary rounds and makes it into the final round against Miss Howard. <\/p>\n Nancy played \u201chome\u201d in true championship style, every shot straight and true. Miss Howard, in a desperate attempt to win, tried too hard and set her ball into a sandtrap. This cost her an extra point. Nancy\u2019s ball already rested on the green scarcely three yards from the cup.<\/p>\n She putted with ease and confidence. The ball rolled so swiftly that a little gasp of horror went up from the crowd. Many persons thought that it would end at the far side of the green. But the ball had been struck squarely and the aim was perfect. It dropped with a little thump into the hole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sounds like the perfect Nancy Drew ending to a tournament, doesn\u2019t it? Well, not quite yet! Everyone cheers, of course, and George proudly tells Nancy that she has won the tournament with a score of 87.<\/p>\n \u201cIt sets a new record for women here at the Deer Mountain course. And you were the youngest one in the tournament, too!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now THAT is a perfect Nancy Drew ending.<\/p>\n Oh, and what about that pest Mortimer Bartescue?<\/p>\n \u201cDid you look to see if his name appears in the Social Register?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI looked for it but it wasn\u2019t there. I imagine the fellow is just a windbag.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve suspected it all along, Ned.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After 112 years, golf is once again an Olympic sport. Before that, it was an official part of the Games only in 1900 and 1904. Too bad it wasn\u2019t part of the 1936 Olympics. Nancy Drew would have been a … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nancy-drewsday","tag-nancy-drew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}