Word: golfed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When TIME'S Sport editor Marshall Smith flew to Fort Worth, Texas to get Ben Hogan's story for the first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house...
...found that Hogan talked spontaneously enough about Fort Worth's summers, the joys of the California climate-and about golf, except when a direct question was asked. One of them, a naive query about putting, produced a horrified "You're not going to say that in your story?" from Hogan. Perfectionist Hogan began to worry and, later, complained: "You're getting this all mixed up." Said Smith: "Look, your game is golf; this story is my business. Let me handle...
...self off the tees, and in the third day's round a gasp of disbelief went up from his gallery when he took four putts on the 15th green. Hogan did not blame the climate. He said merely, "Hell, I'm just not playing golf." In the final round, Ben finally found his touch with a one-under-par 70, but by then it was too late...
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...
...widower with three children, Percy likes to race his sailboat on Lake Michigan, take home movies, and play golf. He is also working towards a law degree at night school ("a businessman can't safely make a move today without consulting a lawyer"), as part of the job of keeping Bell & Howell growing. Says Percy: "No company can stand still. We set our sights always a little ahead of what we think we can reach...