Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three other U. S. players equaled par with 142, which none of the Britons could do. Alf Padgham, defending champion, shot a 78 and a 74. With the weather bonny the next day, Padgham and Reginald Whitcombe turned in 723 for the first 18 holes of championship play, but easy-going Ed Dudley of Philadelphia passed them with a 70, followed by Denny Shute, twice U. S. professional champion, with a 73. In the second round, with only a light easterly breeze, the competition grew keener. For Great Britain, Reginald Whitcombe scored a 70 for a total...
...18th for a 5. Needing only two more 45 and a 5 to win, he made the next two holes in 3 and 4, cautiously took 5 on the last, to finish with a par 71, topping Whitcombe by two strokes. He had won his second British Open championship when Lacey stormed in shortly afterward with a 72, to finish third...
...game, Henry Cotton first won the Open in 1934. At Sandwich then he shot the first round in 67 to tie Walter Hagen's record for the Open. On the following round he shot a 65, seven under par, the maddest pace ever set in national championship golf. He refused to play on the Ryder Cup team in 1931 because rules forbade him to barnstorm the U. S. independently after the matches. In 1933 he was ineligible because he was a nonresident, employed at the Waterloo Club at Brussels. Last winter when he returned to England to become professional...
Three days after Carnoustie, Champion Cotton met U. S. Professional Champion Denny Shute at Walton Heath, Surrey, for a $2,500 prize and "the world's championship" in 72 holes of match play. For two rounds Shute almost held his own, finishing the 36th hole 2 down, 72-72 v. 71-70. Then his wood game cracked while Cotton plodded grimly, steadily on, carding a brilliant 69 for the third round and spinning along at 2 under par when he finished the match, 6 and 5 at the 67th hole. Cotton got $2,000, Shute...
...trophy and $500 prize offered by his airminded father, Vice President A. Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. In points. Peter Reidel of Germany was ahead of Du Pont with a score of 196 but the German was not eligible for the U. S. championship...