Word: one-over-par
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Round Four. Both Snead and Hogan, with the pressure on them, stroked one-over-par 385 on the outgoing nine. Coming in, and knowing Snead was still hot on his heels, Hogan characteristically closed the Open with a brilliant finish: 3-3-3, two under par on the last three holes...
Timpson, playing second man against Amherst's Ed Bruning, rounded the turn on to the back nine with a one-under-par 35 on the difficult front side of the hilly, wooded Dedham course. He was even par on the back nine, and apparently had the year's only sub par round in the bag when a bad iron shot from the tee on the long par three 17th cost him two strokes and gave him a one-over-par 71 for the round. He beat Bruning...
That time it was the wrong club. He banged the ball eight feet beyond the hole, missed the putt coming back for a one-over-par four. When Sam got no better than par on the 18th, he gave a horde of newsmen one glum look: "It was that damned seventeenth that did it." Gary Middlecoff just grinned and paid off his $10 hedge-bet. With a $2,000 first prize and the prestige that goes with being U.S. Open golf champion, he could well afford it. Snead had tied for second place with North Carolinian Clayton Heafner...
...yardstick, Samuel Jackson Snead was a man. His booming drives and classic swing always drew a large and enthusiastic gallery. Where Sam usually died was on the greens. But in the Masters Tournament at Augusta last week, even Sam Snead was blown askew by winds. He took a one-over-par 73 the first day, a 75 the second...