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...literally addresses the ball. "Come on, little ball," he will mutter. "Now git up there on the green like ah say." Snead lacks Hogan's machine-tool precision, but he is as durable as Sarazen, as handy with the irons as Byron Nelson, and he outdrives Bobby Jones in his prime by a full 20 yards. Like Babe Ruth (to whom his fans often compare him) and the little girl with the curl, Snead is sensationally good when he is good-and when he is bad he is horrid. He is never dull. He plays a gamboling, gambling game...
...defending champion, Ben Hogan, was still weak from a siege of virus and uneasy about his chances of a fifth victory.- The sentimental favorite, the man most golf fans hoped would win, was unquestionably Sam Snead...
...missed a tie with Winner Gary Middlecoff by a single stroke. Last year, at Oakmont, Pa., he was runner-up to his longtime rival, Ben Hogan...
...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...