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...only at Chicago in 1933 but again in last year's Masters' tournament at Augusta, Guldahl had enjoyed a comparable situation and contrived to lose. Needing only to come home in par to win by two strokes he now made it look as though he would lose again when he pushed his drive into the rough on the tenth, took a bogey 5, and three-putted the next green. But this time, with the gallery waiting for Guldahl's game to crack wide open, it did the opposite. So calm that he appeared preoccupied, he got birdies...
...with a record-breaking last round of 64. According to the standards of professional golf, he has been financially successful ever since. Last winter his average score in the circuit of winter tournaments was 71.63, an alltime record. His failure to climax this by winning the Masters' at Augusta, No. 2 open tournament of the U.S., came when his ball failed by inches to carry a stream. Byron Nelson, following him, gained three strokes at that hole and three at the next, where Guldahl again went into the water. But the way Guldahl played at Augusta convinced Sportswriter...
Left behind at Langley Field, Va. when the GHQ Air Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment...
...lean, crinkle-eyed onetime Texas railroad clerk, Nelson had set the pace in the first round of the Augusta National Masters' Tournament with a record-breaking 66. His second round 72 left him in front, but after his third, a 75, ponderous Ralph Guldahl, whose third round was a 68, was four strokes ahead of him. Now, with nine holes left to play, Guldahl, just ahead of Nelson on the course, still had the same advantage...
...years ago, Gene Sarazen won the Masters' Tournament by virtue of what is probably golf's most historic single stroke -a 220-yd. spoon shot that finished in the hole for a double-eagle 2 on the Augusta National's 485-yd. 15th hole. What Nelson did last week was not quite so spectacular but it was equally effective. He got a birdie 3 at the tenth hole, a par 4 at the nth, a birdie 2 at the 12th, an eagle 3 at the 13th. On the 12th, where his ball had failed by inches...