Word: hagens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round, with only a light easterly breeze, the competition grew keener. For Great Britain, Reginald Whitcombe scored a 70 for a total of 142, his older brother Charles Whitcombe posted 144, and Henry Cotton got 146. Still Ed Dudley's 144, Denny Shute's 146 and Walter Hagen's 148 promised that some keen British play would be necessary to guard the Open title in the last 36 holes...
...most devilish, the greens so waterlogged they had to be swept off with long canes, the footing so treacherous that a man could scarcely swing. One by one the U. S. professionals bogged down miserably. Dudley hooked consistently, fell back with a 78 in the morning round. Hagen was stuck with 80, Shute with 76. Only young Byron Nelson and Charles Lacey, British by birth, controlled their pitching and putting, carding respectively 71 and 70. By mid-day Reginald Whitcombe, at home in the torrent, thought his two-stroke lead safe. No longer threatened by the U. S. pack...
Though the Ryder Cup has invariably been won by the golf team playing on home ground, on the eve of the biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas...
...hoodoo hole of the windy Southporty & Ainsdale course in Lancashire, is a 30-ft. sand bunker faced with black railroad ties. The barrier must be cleared on the second shot or the approach to the green is blind. At Grumley's bunker last week non-playing Captain Hagen's two daring selections came to the test. In the morning round, Nelson & Dudley, trailing at the 16th, rallied to clear the bunker for a birdie 4. They returned to Grumley's in the afternoon 3 up. Golfer Cotton's ball hit the bunker squarely, dropped back into...
...Cotton and Nelson lost to little David Rees. By this time defense of the Ryder Cup fell to Gene Sarazen and again Crumley's proved the crucial point. Coming to the 34th hole 1 up on Percy Alliss, Sarazen proceeded to drive into the deep trap. As Captain Hagen excitedly chewed a cigaret on the sideline, Sarazen heroically lifted his ball safely over the bunker to the green, halved the hole. He halved the next one, too, then drove calmly between the dunes, pitched to the green, holed out in 4 to equal Alliss and clinch the Ryder...