Word: padgham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gene Sarazen got 141 and three other U. S. players equaled par with 142, which none of the Britons could do. Alf Padgham, defending champion, shot a 78 and a 74. With the weather bonny the next day, Padgham and Reginald Whitcombe turned in 723 for the first 18 holes of championship play, but easy-going Ed Dudley of Philadelphia passed them with a 70, followed by Denny Shute, twice U. S. professional champion, with a 73. In the second round, with only a light easterly breeze, the competition grew keener. For Great Britain, Reginald Whitcombe scored...
...ground, on the eve of the biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter 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...
Next day was gusty and rainy for the singles matches. The British professionals hoped that the weather would favor their play but on the watery greens the U. S. golfers, and not they, putted dead to the cup. Opening against Padgham, Ralph Guldahl won four holes in the first nine, ended the match at the 29th. Sam Snead dismayed his opponent by blasting the ball 300 yd. at the eleventh, easily won 5 & 4. Denny Shute finished all even with young Sam King. Manero was defeated by Cotton and Nelson lost to little David Rees. By this time defense...
...Alfred Padgham is a tall, impassive Englishman who looks like Boris Karloff, plays golf as if it bored him. Bored or not, he does it better than anyone else in England. For winning four major tournaments in a row, bookmakers made Padgham favorite to win the British Open championship. At Hoylake, the Royal Liverpool Golf Club's course famed for its length (7,078 yd.), he last week...
After a 73 and 72 on the first two days, Golfer Padgham stored his clubs in the golf-shop. Next morning, ready to leave the tee at 8:15 o'clock, he found the shop still closed. Unperturbed, Golfer Padgham broke in through a window, emerged with his clubs, shot two 71's. watched Scot Jim Adams fail by an inch to hole the putt that would have tied the championship...