Sentences with word «duffer»

If your REI group is up for an old duffer like me crashing the dinner party send me the info.

They look like a pair of duffers hustling to finish a round before a torrential Florida downpour.

A reader forwarded this invite (actually, just the front) for Libous» annual golf fundraiser, in which he's offering premiums for duffers who shoot «closest to the governor» (hole - in - one, prize: a new car) and «closest - to - the - senator» (sink a 50 - foot putt, win $ 5,000).

It's 1997 and the single, a middle - aged weekend duffer, shows up at Honolulu's busy Ala Wai Golf Course, and the starter asks the handsome Korean family with the gangly daughter if they'd mind playing as a foursome.

As a publisher, they constantly cherry - pick some of the most interesting new games like Rage and Dishonored, although arent beyond releasing the odd duffer like Rogue Warrior and Hunted: The Demons Forge.

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

When I am tempted to say this, I do well to remember that telegram in Roger's mother's hand: If not duffers, won't drown.

Once a year he shows up in Paris to host the Rocky Thompson Shootout, a sort of free - for - all in which duffers are blasted with water pistols as beer is poured on their Titleists.

In the past I had almost gained entrance to the promised land of wayward duffers on numerous occasions, only to leave the course with my head hung low in shame after another bout of Locked Address malady.

Palmeiro discards bats the way duffers disgustedly change putters.

Most golfers use soft spikes, officials said, but the occasional duffer who dons metal spikes can do noticeable damage to the course.

You always get the odd duffer and SNK Arcade Classics is no exception but taken as a package it is still a worthy purchase.

Red Sands is tough enough to challenge the experienced golfer, easy enough for the casual duffer.

But unlike most duffers, Parsons used his considerable cash pile to do something about it.

Now, with modern courses struggling to lure time - strapped duffers, there's a renewed interest in nine - hole tracks.

Sure, everyday duffers smoke cigars and drink beer mid-game but anyone who's ever been in the parking lot after any adult recreation softball or hockey game can see that same type of approach to athletic excellence.

«Whatever one thinks of the series of Civil War generals who were elected presidents of the United States for the following quarter century, not one of those bearded Republican old duffers remotely resembled Caesar.»

This is in memory of Sam (Slammin» Sammy) Snead and master instructor Harvey Penick as well as all the elder duffers of my youth who tried to help me relax.

Be warned: The dean of southern Illinois duffers is back!

Then we have the Dickensian old fool and arrogant duffer, Sir Chips Keswick, who thinks no fan is entitled to ask a PERTINENTquestion, as to why the club is a basket case.

Judging by the latest «advances» in the hunting field, the woods and marshes will shortly be full of sybaritic duffers whose only interest is to go easy, take potshots and brag late.

Strege's fascinating history of golf during World War II and the ends that duffers went to on all fronts to keep swinging makes for a chronicle worth surrendering to.

Half of them would have sanctioned the purchase of every European player going, (many of which have proven to be complete duffers), bought one season wonders from our rivals, changed Wenger for Klopp, Brenda, Mancini..

wenger has to extract MAXIMUM VALUE in every signing we make age, wages, potential to get better he thinks of everything not just lets get a «big name» for the sake of it he wouldn't be doing his scouting work properly then and we would pay big bucks for a injured duffer

Remember this time last year when one of the old duffers apparently told a journalist that we still had 70 to 100 million to spend and we would after buying Cech?

A self - taught duffer, he took up the sport 20 years ago when he was given clubs as a retirement gift.

They've bought too many duffers — so need to sort this out (one of the reasons Wenger has to go).

Hot weather combined with intense downpours — one of the signature signs of a changing climate — has flummoxed duffers and greenskeepers alike on East Coast golf courses.

Hi im Matt, im 23, im a cook at a bar named duffers, i love tattoos have 13, very laid back and am a huge pothead / gamer so hmu

Bad guys are bludgeoned, blown up and even crushed by an elephant, and the two duffers take a lassez - faire attitude toward disposing of them.

Watch out for the ending in this as its a real duffer with some nasty bluescreen going on, allot of bluescreen used in this film but the ending just looked the worst..

Like a child arriving at a neighborhood playground, the determined duffer climbs up the takeoff ramp, perches himself atop the inrun and begins his speedy descent.

Working from a rare duffer of a script by Peter (Frost / Nixon) Morgan, Clint Eastwood directs this soggily religious, three - stranded ramble around the topic of life after death.

Winner: American Gods Amazon's crimson fantasy announced its WTF credentials in an early scene where a paunchy duffer (Joel Murray — Bill's brother!)

Its reputation has been cemented by the string of Peugeot duffers that followed - ended only recently, thanks to the 208 GTi.

Well, former BMW M head honcho Albert Biermann has been the technical driving force behind the i30 N, and his back catalogue suggests he doesn't on the whole do duffers.

Equally I've sat at a dinner table while a rival development engineer, wearing an expression of genuine disbelief and sadness, outlined his case for the F80 being a spectacular M Division duffer.

The spread is wide and the going is good, with few genuine duffers.

You'll still find duffers, certainly, but you'll also find that in trade publishing.

Instead of finding new and different ways to promote their books, they hope that Oprah will like it, that a J.K. Rowlings will come along, or that they can piggyback on the film rights... all at the expense of the author... the publishers are a bunch of conservative, dry, boring old duffers without a single notion of creativity... especially when it comes to promotion, marketing, and / or sales of literacy, reading, books, and / or literature.

It is The Old Duffers Flying Club and has around nine members, most of whom are hacks who have travelled the world and written about it, much as I have.

The Apartments are all built over the trout filled lake so you can catch your own dinner or dine in our famous Duffers Ridge licensed restaurant.

Hotel guests get special booking privileges at five fabled Monterey Peninsula courses including Spyglass Hill and the Links at Spanish Bay, where golf legends like Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods won U.S. Open titles, and site of the annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am, with top golfers and surprisingly good celebrity duffers matching up for entertaining rounds each February.

The new Greg Norman Signature Course at Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta is infinitely playable for resort duffers, but strong enough to give Vidanta Golf's stable of PGA Tour pros a good workout.

But look past that holy trinity of beloved fan franchises (fanchises) and the Sony conference had a lot of potential duffers.

First up was some old Sega duffer known as Sonic the Hedgehog, in a mini-game is based on the bonus stage in Sonic 2.

He is an «avid duffer», and is a founding member of the Seven Hills Golf and Country Club.