Word: burkemo
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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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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