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...tournament got under way, both Snead and Mangrum, playing under the watchful eyes of a convoy of cops and plainclothesmen, were clearly off their games. Mangrum wound up tied for sixth place; Snead was out of the running. The winner: former (1949) U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff, with...
...tournament to tournament before he hits a champion's stride. He practices interminably, frets over his game, the antagonism of a sport columnist, his victories over a happy-go-lucky friend (Dennis O'Keefe) resembling the real-life Jimmy Demaret (who, like Golfers Sam Snead and Gary Middlecoff, plays himself in the movie). Then comes the near-fatal crash...
Defending Champion Sammy Snead of West Virginia and U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...
...present. Australian-born San Franciscan Jim Ferrier used a gimpy backswing (result of a football injury), but he had a delicate putting touch over the tricky greens. By the end of the second day he held a four-stroke lead over Hogan, live strokes over Demaret. Snead and Middlecoff were trailing; the Masters became a pursuit of the seven-under-par pace set by the gangling Australian...
...final round, while Middlecoff was floundering, Snead treated himself to a 66. By winning the North and South (by six strokes over Runner-Up Johnny Bulla), Sam Snead boosted his earnings for the year to $32,393. Next best: Middlecoff, with...