Word: fleck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under such pressure, Sam Snead, 44, took 40 goes at it to finish nine holes (five over par), which assured his 16th defeat in 16 tries at the Open. Jack Fleck, last year's winner, did not even qualify for the final two rounds. When the 51 finalists lined up for the last 36 holes on the lush green course, an affable, free-swinging Australian named Peter Thomson, 26, held the lead by a single stroke over Old Pro Ben Hogan, out for his fifth Open title. Rangy Gary Middlecoff, 35, the Memphis dentist, was only two strokes back...
...paid for. He is relaxed and eating his food." Mangrum went for $15,500. "I give you Arnold Palmer. Short backswing; no choker." Palmer's sale price: $7,000. Wershow found his biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where's your gambling blood, fellows? He's the national champ." Fleck fell for a meager...
...former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, Army Football Coach Earl Blaik, Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion John B. Kelly (father of Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace Kelly...
...considered hiding, Fleck soon found that his life will be very public for quite a spell. With his pretty blonde wife Lynn and four-year-old son Craig at his side, he was whisked off, in a new white Cadillac, through Davenport and his birthplace village of Bettendorf (pop. 5,000), as thousands more huzzahed. At home on East Street, he riffled through a 2-ft.-high stack of telegrams. Then, swamped by offers for endorsements, interviews and public appearances, he telephoned Fred Corcoran, professional business manager for professional athletes, became a Corcoran client. Later in the day the local...
...hero-worship might have over blown a less elastic man than Golfer Fleck. But the operator and pro of Davenport's two municipal golf courses, as unpretentious as an ear of Iowa corn, has seen too much adversity in golf to let one victory, even though golf's greatest, pop his sides. After years of luckless touring on the winter circuit (in 1953 he won a total of $13-75), how did Jack Fleck win the big one in San Francisco? The trick-turner was the change in his putting. Although he once offered...