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Leonard is also part of the Texas golf tradition handed down from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan to Jimmy Demaret to Lee Trevino to Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Growing up in Dallas, Justin was so golf-mad that he wrote school papers on Nicklaus, Player and Palmer and practiced his short game inside the house. He recalled one hole as "up the stairs, around the dining room table and over the dog." The enormity of his desire was somewhat mitigated by his small stature, but Leonard delighted in beating opponents who far outdrove him. Because Leonard rarely loses his composure...
DIED. Jimmy Demaret, 73, fun-loving golfer who was the first man to win three Masters titles ('40, '47, '50); apparently of a heart attack; in Houston. The Professional Golfers' Association's top money winner in 1947 (his total: a now laughable $27,936), Demaret often sported garish garb that scandalized sartorially conservative fellow athletes but blazed the fairway trail for today's multihued golfers. Said an admiring Sam Snead of his hard-partying contemporary: "No telling what Jimmy would have done if he'd toed the line and gone...
...16th hole at Cypress Point is considered the most dazzling in the world. It is a par three that requires a sheer carry of 233 yards over what Crosby termed "mollusk country" to a pocket handkerchief-sized green situated on a rocky palisade. As Jimmy Demaret once said, "There is no relief. The only place you can drop the ball over your shoulder is in Honolulu." Only two men have ever made a hole-in-one on the 16th at Cypress Point. One of them is Bing Crosby...
...Watson stood in the center of the Bosky Amphitheater at the 18th green of the Augusta National golf course last Sunday and stroked in a tap-in to win the Masters. Watson was not quite as resplendent as Jimmy Demaret was when he won the tournament on Easter Sunday, 1947, clad in canary yellow from head to foot, but then all anyone notices in the end is the green jacket traditionally given to the Masters champion...
SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gardner Dickinson plays Mason Rudolph at the Guatemala Country Club in Central America. Gene Sarazen and Jimmy Demaret are the commentators for the match...