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...Whitt, 26, despite a tremendous rally by Whitt that included a startling hole-in-one on the 145-yd. 13th. Hebert, meanwhile, was hitting his approach shots with machine-gun precision, putting straight enough on Dayton's tricky greens to knock off Michigan's Walter Burkemo, 38, one of the game's canniest match players...
...Paul, Detroit Golf Pro Melvin ("Chick") Harbert backed up his deadly approach shots with a deft touch on the greens and took the P.G.A. championship from Defender Walter Burkemo...
...Birmingham, Mich., Walter Burkemo, home pro at the nearby Franklin Hills country club, defeated Felice Torza, another club pro from St. Charles, ILL., 2 and 1, for the Professional Golfers' Association title after all the more famed touring pros, e.g., Sam Snead, Gary Middlecoff and Claude Harmon, had been beaten in earlier . rounds. Notably missing from the entry list: Old Pro Ben Hogan, who was busy in Scotland (see above...
Club, Snead was 17 strokes under par after defeating five topflight opponents. Said Snead: "I don't know that I've ever scored better." In the final, against Newcomer Walter Burkemo, Snead outdid himself...
...booming drive and a well-placed approach shot left him 40 ft. from the pin on the 483-yd. first hole (par five). Burkemo, also well-placed, was in line for a birdie. He got it, too. Then Snead, taking dead aim from the fringe of the green, chipped into the cup for an eagle three. "After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven...
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