Word: harmonized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Claude Harmon strode out to the first tee, he knew he lacked what the boys called "tournament toughness." But on the first round he fired a 70, just one stroke off the leader...
...Ditch & Roadway. Next day, he took the hard way around Augusta's wide fairways that are lined with lofty pines and handsome flowers. On the 15th hole, when his ball went in a ditch, Harmon shed shoes & socks and went into the water to play it. At the 17th (similar to the famous 14th at Scotland's St. Andrews), his drive hit a tree and caromed off into a roadway. But Claude recovered, made one over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens...
...Shot. As the last round began, Harmon had a two-stroke lead, and reacted to the pressure by turning taciturn. The only man with a good chance to catch him was husky, hard-luck Chick Harbert, famous for tremendous drives and poor finishes. But Harbert fell apart. Harmon, a little more on edge now, showed it by biting his lips and asking the crowd after a drive: "Where is it? Where is it? Did anyone see my ball...
...Harmon kept his lead for five holes. Then, on the short sixth, he smacked the ball toward the green and the crowd held its breath as the ball stopped a few inches from the pin. Claude tapped it in for a birdie. Afterward he said to a reporter: "I don't mind telling you I was extremely nervous until then. That did it. Something clicked. It was the big shot...
...Harmon won his first big tournament, and $2,500 in cash, with a nine-under-par 279, five strokes ahead of anyone else...