Word: pinehurst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ryder Cup team, over Britain; for the fifth year in a row; at Pinehurst, N.C. Captained by Sam Snead, the ten U.S. players dropped only two out of twelve matches, tied one, to maintain a perfect record defending the Cup on home ground...
Dick Chapman is a part-time bond salesman and a full-time student of golf Who lives in the heart of the U.S. golf world at Pinehurst, N.C. At 40, he can look back on a distinguished golf career on U.S. Walker Cup teams, a 1940 U.S. amateur title, and a trophy room full of lesser prizes calculated to satisfy the most demanding topnotcher. But not Dick Chapman. In 16 years he has twice reached the final of the British Amateur championship, and lost both times (to Willie Turnesa in 1947, Frank Stranahan in 1950). Last week, Chapman tried again...
...Nebraska's Don Cooper, a tie for pole-vault honors (at 14½ ft.) in the Drake Relays, after both failed at 15 ft.; at Des Moines. ¶ Pat O'Sullivan (with a birdie on the final hole), her second North & South Amateur golf title; at Pinehurst, N.C. ¶ Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, over Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s Australian champion, 6-1, 6-3, 7-5, the Paris tennis title and his fifth straight victory over Savitt; in Paris. ¶ Newcastle United in an upset over Blackpool, 2-0, before 100,000 fans (including King...
...Pinehurst, N.C., Slammin' Sam Snead over the field, with a 13-under-par 275, for his second consecutive (third altogether)North and South open golf title. ¶ In Brisbane, Australian Tennis Champion Frank Sedgman over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, a smashing, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory for the Queensland title. ¶ In Baltimore, the Greentree Stable's One Hitter, twice conqueror of Noor, over a second-rate field for the winner-take-all $15,000 Pimlico Special. ¶ In Manhattan, perennial (22 years) world Court Tennis Champion Pierre Etchebaster (TIME, Dec. 26) over Challenger Alastair Martin...
...give the British Amateur an all-American windup for the second time in four years. They were 28-year-old Frank Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio, 1948 British Amateur winner, who had been hammering some of the longest shots of the week, and 39-year-old Dick Chapman, of Pinehurst, N.C., a 1947 finalist...