Word: golfdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amateur, he finished the Masters Golf Tournament just a stroke behind golfdom's two top pros...
Billy Joe Patton is the spectacled, spectacular amateur golfer who finished the recent Masters Golf tournament just a stroke behind golfdom's two top pros, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. After the Masters-where he sprayed his tee shots into the woods, then scrambled to some remarkable recoveries-grinning Billy Joe announced: "I hope I can come back next year. If I can nudge it up a little higher, we'll really have ourselves a roaring good time...
...third round that Hogan really took charge. Bantam (139 Ibs.) Ben, playing with chunky (220 Ibs.) Ed Oliver, and often out-hitting him, drew ohs & ahs from a crowd of some 10,000 with his fairway-splitting shots. The ahs changed to outright cheers on the ninth green when golfdom's mechanical man, after careful sighting, crisply stroked a 60-ft. putt into the cup for an outgoing four-under-par 32. The word that went around the Augusta gallery...