Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Caddy. Sam Snead was born and raised in Ashwood, a hamlet near the mountain resort of Hot Springs, Va. and its famed golf hotel, the Homestead. The five Snead brothers begged broken-shafted clubs from the Homestead caddy master, and replaced their splintered wooden shafts with whittled hickory sticks or old buggy-whip handles. Sometimes they carved an entire driver from a hickory sapling with a knotty root...
...clubs-and the pedagogy of brother Homer's foot-Sam developed his graceful and somewhat unorthodox swing. He never took a lesson, never hampered his free & easy game with the kinks and strains that often plague the rule-book golfer. At twelve, Sam took up caddying at the Homestead, studied the pros, and played the employees' course-nine tortuous holes on a mountainside called the "goat -course." The Sneads were poor (father Snead was a maintenance man in the Homestead's boiler room). In addition to caddying, Sam also worked as a soda jerk...
There were precious few jobs for untested young golfers. After a year's drudgery in a restaurant, Sam got his break: a job as shop boy at the Homestead golf shop. For $20 a month he repaired clubs, shellacked and finished woods, did odd jobs, and breathed the atmosphere of golf. One morning an elderly lady guest came into the shop and asked for a lesson. Both pros were busy, so Sam agreed to teach...
Vogt is the author of "Homestead," "Navajo Veterans: A Study in Changing Values," co-author of "Navajo Means People," and is associate editor of The American Indian magazine and The Journal of American Folklore...
Edward K. Blodnick of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert A. Bowman of New York City; Roger J. Bulger of Hollis, L. I.; Edward G. Condon of Long Beach, N. Y.; William F. Dennis of Queens, N. Y.; Edward M. Krinsky of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Richard J. Manning of Homestead, Pa.; Rollin F. Perry of Long Beach, N. Y.; Harry P. Sacks of Long Beach, N. Y.; Stanley H. Appel (Mgr.) of Dorchester, Mass...