11.   He had little control of his strokes on the fast hardcourt, in the thin nearly mile-high air.

12.   He wanted the strokes on each canvas to acknowledge each other, to draw his motifs together, he said, like the fingers of a hand.

13.   I was just gathering my thoughts and trying to putt a good stroke on the putter.

14.   J.P. Hayes, who has spent most of his nine-year professional career on the Nike circuit, was another stroke back on a cool, rainy day.

15.   Karl takes a short stroke on his imaginary green.

16.   Mediate gained a stroke on the day but would lose two over the final four holes.

17.   Make the same number of strokes on each side of the blade and try to maintain the same angle and pressure on both sides of the blade.

18.   Middle-aged men were as likely to get strokes on weekdays as on weekends.

19.   Mark Wiebe was able to smile Monday after losing the Kemper Open to Justin Leonard by one stroke on Sunday.

20.   My advice is to commit to the feel of the stroke and make a smooth, rhythmic stroke on the intended line to the hole.