Word: elm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burke-Von Elm tie came about as a result of a typically exciting situation in the last round. Von Elm, eighteenth on the first day, got back into the running by shooting a second round of 69, two strokes under par and the lowest score of the meeting. He started the last round two strokes ahead of Burke, who had played three rounds consistently a stroke or two over par, with few birdies and one eagle on the long ninth hole. Burke, playing ahead of Von Elm in the last round, finished with a steady 73 for a total...
...Elm, out in 36, needed only a 38 on the last nine holes to win. Knowledge of his apparently impregnable position made him nervous. He had a six at the twelfth, a five on the fifteenth. Needing three par-fours now for a tie, he dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt...
Ties in the Open are decided by a 36-hole playoff. When Burke and Von Elm came to the 36th hole the next day, Burke needed a four for a 149; Von Elm, a stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from...
...Elm had wired his good friend Oilman Silas Newton COULD WIN IF YOU WERE HERE. Oilman Newton and a gallery of not more than 250 came for the unprecedented second 36-hole play-off the next day. Burke played an erratic round, his first, in the morning, but Von Elm was shaky too. They had 77 and 76. In the afternoon, both played beautifully. When they came to the 36th tee, Burke was two strokes ahead. He hit his ap proach too hard and it scampered across the low platform of the green 15 feet beyond the hole. Von Elm...
Third in the Open, two strokes behind Burke and Von Elm, was green-eyed Leo Diegel. On his second round, he had sunk his tee shot at the 13th hole, the first hole-in-one made in an Open since 1922. Fourth was Gene Sarazen, dapper little ex-caddy...