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...Watson stood in the center of the Bosky Amphitheater at the 18th green of the Augusta National golf course last Sunday and stroked in a tap-in to win the Masters. Watson was not quite as resplendent as Jimmy Demaret was when he won the tournament on Easter Sunday, 1947, clad in canary yellow from head to foot, but then all anyone notices in the end is the green jacket traditionally given to the Masters champion...
While attending Harvard graduate school in 1924, Jones served as the Crimson golf coach. The current Harvard coach, Bob Donovan, felt the prestige of the Jones name might convince the tournament directors to allow the Crimson golf team to watch the Masters this year on the way back from its spring trip to Florida...
...Donovan received a polite but firm refusal from Frank Broyles, the former Arkansas football coach, who is a member of the Masters Committee. Broyles offered some solace, however: in past years the golf teams of both the University of Georgia and Wake Forest, which boasts Arnold Palmer as an alum, had also been denied permission to be a part of the Masters gallery...
...position as the greatest and most popular golfer of his era when he won the U.S. amateur in 1930 in the final leg of the incomparable "Grand Slam". After beating Gene Homans nine and seven for that fifth amateur title, Jones went into retirement and began to envision a golf course that would serve as a monument to his philosophy of the game. Jones wanted his club to be a truly national one, where "men of means might play with kindred spirits...
...play in his own tournament against his will. He was never in the running, but the press retained an unflagging belief in his invincibility. After the first day's play, The New York Times ran the headline, "Unsteady Putting Drops Jones to Tie for 35th, Six Shots Behind Golf Leaders...