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Just after 10 one morning last week, Mrs. Mary S. Dempsey, 38, and Mrs. Bertha E. Johnston, 53, teed off down the tree-lined seventh fairway of the Timuquana Country Club at Jacksonville. At the same time, at the nearby Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Ensign Charles L. Greenwood took off in a Corsair fighter on a training mission...
...women, unaware of the plane, were walking down the fairway again, chatting. Their caddy, off to one side, saw the Corsair bearing silently down from behind, billowing smoke. His warning shout was carried away by the wind. The women did not have a chance to turn their heads before they were struck and killed by the windmilling propeller. The plane plowed on across the green sod, crashed into a pine grove and burst into flames...
...back a more polished performer than before. He had his old game plus a new frame of mind. Winning tournaments did not seem so important any more, and were therefore easier to win. But it took guts to do it on legs that ached while he was on the fairway and hurt even worse at night. They had never ached so badly as one day in Philadelphia in June 1950. He stumbled into his hotel room and sank into a chair. That day he had gone 36 holes at Merion to tie for first place in the U.S. Open...
Ouimet smacked the ball crisply, 170 yards straight down the fairway, and an antique cannon beside the tee boomed a salute. It was the traditional "driving in" ceremony, performed each year-but not always so well-by the elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient, golf's oldest and holiest shrine. Francis Ouimet, onetime caddy from the wrong side of Boston's tracks, was the first American ever elected captain...
...with that hurdle past, there was no stopping little Ben Hogan in the playoff. Rifling his drives squarely down the fairway, clicking off his approach shots with deadly precision, he held a one-stroke lead over Mangrum at the 16th, three strokes better than Fazio. On the 16th green, Mangrum picked up his ball to blow off a crawling insect. The penalty for violation of the rules cost him two strokes and his last chance to stay in the running. Hogan curled in a clinching 50-foot putt for a birdie on the 17th, wound up with another 69, four...