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...fourth round Sam applied the crusher: a blazing 66 against 1953's Amateur Champion Gene Littler, Ted Kroll and Ed Oliver. The crusher gave Snead an insurmountable lead: 52 points to 18 for Runners-Up Gary Middlecoff, defending champion, and Jack Burke. On the final round, instead of relaxing, Snead shot a 65, lowest round of the tournament, and won by the biggest margin in the 16-year history of the Round Robin, beating Runner-Up Toski by 36 points...
...Birmingham, Mich., Walter Burkemo, home pro at the nearby Franklin Hills country club, defeated Felice Torza, another club pro from St. Charles, ILL., 2 and 1, for the Professional Golfers' Association title after all the more famed touring pros, e.g., Sam Snead, Gary Middlecoff and Claude Harmon, had been beaten in earlier . rounds. Notably missing from the entry list: Old Pro Ben Hogan, who was busy in Scotland (see above...
...Westbury, N.Y., Memphis Dentist Cary Middlecoff started off with a respectable 70, shot a 6-under-par 64 for a course record, then ran off the next three rounds 66-67-66, to win the Palm Beach invitation golf tournament from 15 of the world's top pros...
...National Open Golf Champion Julius Boros, the 18-hole playoff of the $90,000 "World" golf tournament, with a score of 68 to beat out Runner-Up Gary Middlecoff, who carded a 70, after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
...shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park. In the race for the longest winning record, Longden, 42, was still (426) behind England's 47-year-old Gordon Richards. ¶ Sam Snead, the Palm Beach golf tournament, by two points over Gary Middlecoff; at New Rochelle...