Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every time they read a story about me they clip it." The Little Dog's Tail. Last week, as he packed his bags for Baltusrol, Sam Snead seemed at peak form. The warm West Virginia sun and hot sulphur baths had relaxed him. Ten days of practice, drivBEN HOGAN Before sunup, an old bogey...
...time when older players dominate the game (Hogan is 42; most of the other top-seeded players range from their mid-30s to 50). Snead looked as good in 1954 as he had looked in 1937. He recognizes that competitive golf is still a young man's game, and attributes the present dearth of young stars to the Korean...
...Snead will have made it." But before he turns in his clubs, Snead still has one deep desire: to win his first Open. He has been acting very much like a man who expected to win. In Augusta (TIME, April 19), he won the Masters, defeating his old bogey Hogan in a brilliant play-off.- And at the Palm Beach tournament in May, he won with a sizzling 338 for five rounds. Recently, he sent in his entry for the British Open in July-obviously a bid for the professional golfer's "Grand Slam" (P.G.A., Masters...
With the Open approaching, the big boys were fretting about their health. As the late-starting pacemaker for the third annual LIFE-P.G.A. National Golf Day, Ben Hogan carded a sensational 64 (eight under normal par at Baltusrol), but he complained of fatigue and various aches and pains. "My head," he said, "is so sore I have trouble combing my hair." Snead, for his part, grumbled about a "stiff neck that's cramping my swing." The course at Baltusrol seemed tailored for Sam Snead. Its long, sweeping fairways were an invitation to his power drives...
...oversized greens were an advantage, too: a man who counted on hot putting would never win the 1954 Open. To Hogan, Snead and Baltusrol looked like a winning combination: "Man, he should be the hottest favorite since Jones. This course is just made for his type of game." After a practice round at Baltusrol this week, though, Snead himself was cautiously pessimistic. "This baby is real tough," he gloomed. But at Augusta last March, after beating Hogan, he sang a different tune: "The sun don't always shine on the same little dog's tail." For Golfer Snead...