Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Open Champion Ben Hogan was Sticking to his grand design (TIME, Jan. 10). The other pros could make the full winter circuit; "Little Ice Water" would take what he could get in four tournaments, then rest until spring...
...better." A week later, Ben won the Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...
This week, after 72 holes of the Phoenix Open, Demaret and Ben Hogan were tied up again. In the 18-hole playoff, things got better for Demaret. He took an early lead, lost it, took it back again with a birdie on the 345-yd. 14th. Then he got his big break (a double one) on the 17th...
...rough, but the ball hit a spectator and caromed back onto the fairway. His next, a strong approach shot headed for the back-of-beyond, hit a second spectator and dropped on the edge of the green. Demaret took a par for the hole and gained another stroke on Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit: "I feel like a race horse...
...Davis & Blanchard, Elizabeth Arden, Pauline Betz, Frank Leahy, Leo Durocher, Jake Kramer, Jackie Robinson, Bob Chappuis, Barbara Ann Scott, Eddie Arcaro, Mel Patton, Joe DiMaggio, Ben Hogan...