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...Augusta National Golf Club for an Easter vacation. The plane landed in Georgia two hours later. For two days April rains hampered Ike's golfing, but at last the sun came out and the President was able to play with a new partner: Lumber Salesman Billy Jo Patton, the sensational amateur from Morgantown, N.C., who finished third, right behind Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, in the recent Masters Tournament. Patton returned to Augusta after the Masters' especially to meet Ike. and together they trounced their opponents, Club Chairman Cliff Roberts and Columbus, Ga. Broker William Zimmerman. Ike carded...
...boys, said 1935's Winner Gene Sarazen, "are going to make us old-timers look like dubs . . . They'll set up scoring marks we never thought of." For a couple of grey and rainy days last week, Oldtimer Sarazen had the look of a prophet. Billy Joe Patton, 31, a drawling lumberman from Morganton, N.C., fired a fine 144 on the first 36 holes and came up to the halfway mark one stroke ahead of the pack. He was the first amateur ever to lead the Masters...
...third round, those who thought the amateurs were only along for the ride began to nod knowingly. Amateur Patton, spraying shots, had a 75 and dropped into a tie for third. Hogan and Snead, playing careful, methodical golf, moved into first and second, three strokes apart...
Then, to everyone's surprise, last-day jitters caught up with the veterans. Hogan and Snead got off to shaky starts. Patton, a formidable five strokes off the pace, caught fire. His crisp iron shots were carrying to the greens, his putts were running sure and true. On the 190-yd. sixth, he smacked an astonishing hole...
Snead, meanwhile, had found his touch again. He wound up with a par 72 and posted a total score of 289. Patton, with a commendable finishing 71, was home a stroke behind. Now Hogan was forced to gamble, and still his putts refused to drop. He needed a birdie three on the 18th to win. He had to settle for a par that tied him with Slammin' Sammy Snead...