Talk:Ken Still

Message to editor Lindajstill

I am the primary author of this article. I reverted what you wrote not because I believe your actions are that of a vandal, but rather you do not cite references and placed the edits out-of-place (in the PGA wins template). Judging from your name - Linda J. Still you are probably someone who knows this bio first hand.

Everything I got came straight out of golfonline.com, pgatour.com or an on-line newspaper article. If something is wrong, please don't hesitate to change it, but please go through the text and re-write it rather than posting a comment at the end. That way it keeps the article encyclopedic and professional-looking.--Hokeman 03:45, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

the latter

Article sez:

While playing a match with Dave Hill against Brian Huggett and Bernard Gallacher, Still and Hill lost a hole after the latter putted out of turn.

So who is "the latter"? The word latter is used to compare two things, never three. If latter is intended to refer to Gallacher, one could correctly call him "the last", but not "the latter". However I think better style, and certainly more understandable, would be just to call him "Gallacher". (Side note — never strain too hard to avoid repeating words. That's what Fowler criticized as elegant variation.) --Trovatore (talk) 15:18, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I checked the ref, and now I see — it was Hill who putted out of turn. That does actually work with the sentence if you read it carefully enough. The problem is that the reader has to search the sentence to see who "the latter" is, and there are three names lit up in blue, the last of which is Gallacher.

I'm going to change it to "... Hill putted out of turn", which doesn't pose this problem to the reader. --Trovatore (talk) 16:08, 29 September 2014 (UTC)