Word: demarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with the help of a rusty old gooseneck putter, Bobby Locke collected his $5,000 guarantee and $2,000 besides. Other golfers-like Ben Hogan and Jimmy Demaret-refused to indulge in such Tam O' Shanter shenanigans as wearing numbers on their backs, but since there was money in it, Locke was willing. After 72 holes, he was twelve strokes under par and in a first-place tie with Ed ("Porky") Oliver. He went on to beat Oliver in a playoff, and to become the third biggest money winner on this year's pro golf circuit...
...Locke's total is now $16,187.50. Ahead of him: Ben Hogan, with $18,724; Jimmy Demaret, with...
Such was the end of the first national P.G.A. tournament in two years, played despite the absence of 410 PGAers in the service (including Ben Hogan, Horton Smith, Vic Ghezzi, Jim Turnesa, Jim Demaret). And the last match was not the only interesting one. On hand were...
Texas is proud of its homebred sport stars: Football's Sammy Baugh, Baseball's Dizzy Dean, Tennis' Wilmer Allison. But when it comes to golf, the Lone Star State has no lone star but a little dipper full: Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Harry Cooper. In the Augusta Masters last year, Texans finished...
...first day, under a blazing sun, the only player hot enough to crack par was 36-year-old Denny Shute of Chicago, a 50-to-1 shot. As for the Texans, Nelson shot 73, Hogan 74, Demaret 75, Guldahl 79. On the second day, play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant...