Word: championships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hogan knows every foot of Riviera's 7,000-yd. course. Two years running he has won the Los Angeles Open there. And there last June, leaving a hare & hounds trail of half-smoked cigarettes in his wake, he won his greatest triumph thus far-the U.S. Open championship. He played Riviera as if he owned it; the caddies called it Hogan's Alley...
...foreign to the rest of the game. One of them should be called golf and the other something else." He put in long practice "tapping" the ball (for short putts) and "rolling" it (for long ones). Then he took a practice spin around Riviera's 18-hole championship course...
...rise to the competition." One thing they have in common is that both made golfing history. Jones did it in 1930 with his "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur). In 1948, Hogan became the first golfer ever to win the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. championship and the Western Open in the same year. He was also golf's top official money winner (with $32,112 in prizes), and he was winner of the Vardon Trophy with an average of 69.3 strokes for every 18 holes in tournament competition...
...Riviera with a sparkling 275 (nine strokes under par) to win the Los Angeles Open and set a new course record. At St. Louis in May, he gave Mike Turnesa one of the worst drubbings (7 and 6) of Mike's career in the final of the P.G.A. championship. Last June at Riviera, where he got the big one -the U.S. Open-he chipped five off the old tournament record of 281 strokes...
...clinic here will be McInnis's first official function since his appointment as baseball coach last October 19. McInnis comes to Cambridge after a session at Amherst in which he compiled a record of ten wins and only one loss--a 4 to 3 defeat by Yale's championship squad...