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...Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas railroad clerk, and seasoned Ed Dudley...
Gasped British Captain Charles Whitcombe: "I can't believe it!'' Manero & Guldahl promptly captured their foursome 2 & 1 and Gene Sarazen & Denny Shute halved theirs to put the U. S. ahead 2½ points...
...18th green of his last round in the Open. This time he sank it. This time it meant not only winning the championship but doing it by two strokes, 281 to Sam Snead's 283, and breaking by a stroke the record Open score set by Tony Manero last year...
...land. Golfer Thomson arrived at the 17th green needing a par and a birdie for a 64, by two strokes the lowest Open score on record. He then missed a 2-ft. putt by inches, missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen was restoring himself momentarily to a contending position with a 69 after a first round 78 and, as anticipated, Guldahl, Snead, Big Ed Dudley and British-born Harry Cooper, who has twice turned out to be runner-up in the Open...
Because Shute was the defending P. G. A. champion, his match with Open Champion Manero might have been the climax of the tournament. It ended on the 34th green when Manero, who had never been less than i down since the third, just failed to hole a 20-yd. chip shot he needed to keep the match alive. The match was not the climax of the tournament because the final the following day, between Shute and McSpaden, who had nosed out Laffoon, turned out to be as bitterly contested as any engagement in the P. G. A.'s earnest...