Word: demarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...birdie, he promised: "Things are going to get better." A week later, Ben won the Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...
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...
Going into the last round, four men were tied for the lead-Lloyd ("Mustache") Mangrum, Jimmy ("Smiles") Demaret, Eric Monti and Leland Gibson. The first to crack in the stretch was Monti, then Demaret. The winner (wearing pajamas under his golf slacks to keep warm): Mangrum, with an even-par 284. Tied for tenth, with 292, was Ben Hogan, 1948's golfer-of-the-year...