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...after he had finished playing, he had chanced to read it, Golfer Harry Cooper of Chicago might have felt reassured. Cooper had just posted not 287 but 284. This was the best score ever made in the Open, two strokes better than the record made by Chick Evans at Minikahda in 1916. only one stroke over the British Open Record made by Gene Sarazen in 1932. The only golfer in the field who still had a chance of beating it was an obscure young Italian professional named Anthony Manero who, playing 20 minutes behind Cooper, now needed exactly one over...
...long 16th Sarazen, unlike Bobby Cruickshank, smiled. He needed only two more pars for a 66. Sixty-six would be a record round for a U. S. Open. It would give him a winning total of 286 and tie Chick Evans' U. S. Open record made at Minikahda...
...Jones's winning total of 287 was one stroke worse than the U. S. Open record made by Chick Evans in 1916 at Minikahda...
Ancient and honorable veterans; callow and honorable fledglings; famed and honorable champions walked upon the grass at the Minikahda Club, Minneapolis...
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