Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf course Samuel Jackson Snead, 37, professes to be afraid of three things: lightning, a downhill putt and Ben Hogan. Last week, as he slouched on to the first tee in the playoff of the $15,000 Los Angeles Open, there was' no lightning-just fog and Ben Hogan...
...toss, stepped up to the ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
...Snead did not let the gift of one stroke fool him. He stalked down the foggy fairways like a man half expecting an ambush. It took two hours to play the first eight holes. Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...
...sank his and Hogan missed. In grim self-reproach, Hogan stayed on the green and practiced the putt again & again -never once making it. That shook the little man whose gimlet glance used to be enough to make rivals break out in hot & cold sweats...
Except for a slight stiffness about the hips and a shorter backswing, he looked like the old Hogan. He was one under par for the first nine holes. When his strength began to ebb on the 13th, he leaned against a tree to pull himself together. On the 15th, he glared momentarily at what sounded like another movie camera. When he discovered it was only a lawn mower, he calmly lined up a 30-foot putt and sank it. His first-round score was 73, only five strokes off the pace...