Word: demarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove that noise no more hampers a golfer than it does a baseballer or prize fighter, the onetime U. S. & British Open golf champion got three other golfers-Fellow Professional Jimmy Demaret, Amateurs Gene Tunney and Babe Ruth-to join him last week in an exhibition match (for charity) at the Shorehaven Golf Club near Norwalk, Conn...
TIME, APRIL 15, P. 67 STATES THIS YEAR WAS FIRST TIME DEMARET PLAYED IN MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT AT AUGUSTA. PLEASE TELL ME WHO I FOLLOWED FOR 18 HOLES AT AUGUSTA IN 1939 PLAYING UNDER NAME OF JAMES DEMARET...
...None other than the flesh-&-blood Jimmy Demaret. TIME erred. He played his first Augusta Masters Tournament last year, finished out of the money, tying for 33rd place with Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Light Horse Harry Cooper, with a score...
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...