Four springs ago, for example, when she was playing her
first round in the Richmond Open in California, Patty Berg,
after losing her way to the club, borrowing a sports shirt from a sister pro since she had forgotten her own, and having time to hit out only three or four practice shots, hurried onto the course and came within a shot of playing 18 holes in the same number of
strokes it took the 1895 champ to play her better nine.