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...Shots began marching through Georgia's pine-lined, Jones-designed National Golf Club course, there were four co-favorites in the field of 59: stoic Byron Nelson, U. S. Open champion; stolid Ralph Guldahl, two-time (1937-38) U. S. Open champion; happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret, winner of five of the twelve tournaments in the recently concluded winter circuit; and breezy Ben Hogan, winner of the last three winter tournaments with an unprecedented total of 34 under par for 216 holes. The quartet was notable because its members were all Texans-Guldahl a Dallasman, Demaret a Houstonian, Nelson...
When play started, the Texans swept the field like a tornado. The first day, only four golfers broke 70. They were Jimmy Demaret, Byron Nelson and two other Texans, Oldtimer Harry Cooper and Newcomer Lloyd Mangrum, both of Dallas. The Augusta Masters has always produced at least one spectacular round. That day last week those Texans made all previous feats look humdrum. Playing with characteristic nonchalance, chatty Jimmy Demaret-in his first Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major...
Next day and next, while galleries still buzzed over those phenomenal rounds and fellow golfers were beginning to wonder what makes Texans so mighty,* Demaret and Mangrum led the parade, with Nelson close on their heels. On the fourth day, when final scores were posted, Texas won by a landslide: Demaret in first place with 280, Mangrum second with 284, Nelson third with 285 ; Harry Cooper tied for fourth with two non-Texans...
Last week, in the St. Petersburg Open, a crowd of 3,000 gathered around the Lakewood Country Club's 18th green to watch the tournament's final putts. Hovering over their balls were U. S. Open Champion Byron Nelson and smiling Jimmy Demaret. Nelson was away. He tapped his ball, sent it into the cup for a birdie 3, a two-under-par 69 and a 54-hole total of 212. Demaret had to sink his four-foot putt to win the tournament...
...When I start worrying over my shots and getting mad at myself, I'm going to give up tournament golf and go back to work," grinned fun-loving Golfer Demaret (rhymes with croquette) as he pocketed $700 first-prize money, bringing his eight weeks' earnings to $6,077. Though he had won five of the season's nine tournaments and earned twice as much as his nearest rival, Jimmy's confrères as well as the galleries saluted him last week. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow," they chorused...