Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract, Ike overruled the AEC majority (TIME, June 28). Mitchell's charge: "It so happens that a director of one of the two companies favored in the syndicate is one of the President's closest friends-with a cottage next to President Eisenhower's at the Augusta golf course...
...gimme four more years," he says, "at $100,000 a year, and Snead will have made it." But before he turns in his clubs, Snead still has one deep desire: to win his first Open. He has been acting very much like a man who expected to win. In Augusta (TIME, April 19), he won the Masters, defeating his old bogey Hogan in a brilliant play-off.- And at the Palm Beach tournament in May, he won with a sizzling 338 for five rounds. Recently, he sent in his entry for the British Open in July-obviously...
...Baltusrol looked like a winning combination: "Man, he should be the hottest favorite since Jones. This course is just made for his type of game." After a practice round at Baltusrol this week, though, Snead himself was cautiously pessimistic. "This baby is real tough," he gloomed. But at Augusta last March, after beating Hogan, he sang a different tune: "The sun don't always shine on the same little dog's tail." For Golfer Snead's tail, it had been a long wait for sunup...
...11th at Augusta Country Club...
...16th at Augusta National* 17, the 16th at Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania...