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Defending Champion Sammy Snead of West Virginia and U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...
...last week his game had a gleaming, steely and tempered polish; he took the lead in the first round of Florida's $10,000 St. Petersburg Open, went on to win with a dazzling twelve-under-par 272 over such high-powered competitors as Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead...
...been a topsy-turvy tournament, played over a killing course in heat up to 96°. Six former champions (including Gene Sarazen and Byron Nelson) could not place among the first 51 at the halfway point and were eliminated. So was Jimmy Demaret, usually one of big-league golf's deadliest men. Middlecoff's winning 286 was two strokes over par, a rarity in this par-smashing age. The tall (6 ft. 2 in., 180 _lb.) Tennessean pro, who looks a little' like Baseballer Ted Williams, had won by playing safe; he was in the rough...
This week, after 72 holes of the Phoenix Open, Demaret and Ben Hogan were tied up again. In the 18-hole playoff, things got better for Demaret. He took an early lead, lost it, took it back again with a birdie on the 345-yd. 14th. Then he got his big break (a double one) on the 17th...
Jimmy hooked his drive toward the rough, but the ball hit a spectator and caromed back onto the fairway. His next, a strong approach shot headed for the back-of-beyond, hit a second spectator and dropped on the edge of the green. Demaret took a par for the hole and gained another stroke on Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit...