Word: guldahl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last afternoon needing a 71 for 283. When he got it and walked into the locker room he was congratulated as the new champion. Then word came in that, though Dudley, Cooper and Thomson had passed out of the picture, and Cruickshank was safely behind at 285, curly-haired Guldahl was burning up the first nine...
...putt by inches, missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen was restoring himself momentarily to a contending position with a 69 after a first round 78 and, as anticipated, Guldahl, Snead, Big Ed Dudley and British-born Harry Cooper, who has twice turned out to be runner-up in the Open after posting a score apparently good enough to win, were fighting with Thomson for the lead...
...reproduced as effectively as the land allowed the sweeping dunes of his native sea coast, Oakland Hills is notable for its raised, table-like greens. This feature tends to handicap players like Sarazen, who hit low-flying iron shots, favors bigger, stronger players like Snead, Dudley and Guldahl who can use clubs with more loft to drop the ball on the table from on high...
Starting out with the same score as Snead, Guldahl had just missed birdies on the first four holes, holed a 50-footer for a birdie on the fifth. He took a weak bogey on the sixth and parred the seventh. This left him needing to shoot one under par for eleven holes to tie Snead. Guldahl met the situation with a screaming eagle 3 on the 491-yd. eighth, a birdie 2 on the short ninth, to be out in 33 and three shots under Snead to that point...
...only at Chicago in 1933 but again in last year's Masters' tournament at Augusta, Guldahl had enjoyed a comparable situation and contrived to lose. Needing only to come home in par to win by two strokes he now made it look as though he would lose again when he pushed his drive into the rough on the tenth, took a bogey 5, and three-putted the next green. But this time, with the gallery waiting for Guldahl's game to crack wide open, it did the opposite. So calm that he appeared preoccupied, he got birdies...