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...Snead fans are betting that this time he will. Most agree with Gene Sarazen, who says: "If he doesn't make it this time, he never will." The Battleground. For days before the big battle began, at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club, the contestants toiled along the fairways and the fast, king-size greens, trying to learn the secrets of the layout...
...Baltusrol's lower course had been redesigned by famed Golf-Course Architect Robert Trent Jones (see box). Its slim fairways were stretched out to 7,027 yards and its bunkers and greens were scientifically remodeled-at a cost of $50,000-to test the skill of the most accurate golfer...
...year Chief Greenskeeper Edward Casey and his staff worked over the course, improving the turf, coddling the greens. This week 30 maintenance men swarmed over Baltusrol, shaving the greens to a regulation three-sixteenths-inch height while power mowers droned along the edges of the fairways, barbering the marginal rough to a 2½inch crew cut (in the deep rough-"tiger country" to the pros-the grass is five inches high and very thick). Workers unreeled nearly ten miles of rope, fixing it into place along the entire course with 2,100 stakes (for the first time in Open...
...revenuers-in his case, Internal Revenuers, who visit him regularly. Sam gets nervous whenever he sees a story about his wealth: "You know, every time they read a story about me they clip it." The Little Dog's Tail. Last week, as he packed his bags for Baltusrol, Sam Snead seemed at peak form. The warm West Virginia sun and hot sulphur baths had relaxed him. Ten days of practice, drivBEN HOGAN Before sunup, an old bogey...
This week Sam went to have a long, hard look at New Jersey's Baltusrol course, scene of next month's Open Championship. The Open is the one major golf tournament the "Sweet Swinger" has never...