Word: pro-amateur
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...Birdie, Two Eagles. A first-rate golfer, he teamed up with famed Sammy Snead to win a Phoenix pro-amateur match in 1940. Barry dismayed his well-groomed partner by showing up in a soiled shirt, faded khakis and paratrooper boots, further irritated Snead by dubbing his first drive twelve yards off the tee. Snead, who had never met Goldwater, growled to a friend: "Can't that s.o.b. even afford golf shoes?" But Barry birdied one hole, scored eagles on two more; by the time the twosome finished well ahead of the field, they were fast friends...
Palm Springs Second Annual Golf Classic (CBS, 4:30-6 p.m.). Live coverage of a pro-amateur tourney teaming the game's top stars with show-business personalities...
...Playing a qualifying round on the rugged, wind-whipped links at Pebble Beach, Calif., a nervous young Nevada golf pro named Tony Lema tried too hard to recover from a bad lie, took a prodigious swing-and disappeared. He had fallen off an 18-ft. cliff. No one seemed surprised. This was the 16th annual performance of the West Coast tribal rite-complete with fairway high jinks and off-course bottle belting-known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur Golf Championship. Lema's leap was just the kind of accidental clowning that the crowd had come...
...helped entertain on the 19th hole. His guests were handpicked: the amateurs by him, the pros by their own P.G.A. Bing's 86 amateurs included some good golfers, some good friends, some who were both. From Hollywood came Randolph Scott, John Hodiak, Dennis O'Keefe and Amos 'n' Andy's Freeman (Amos) Gosden, who are better than average players. Next to Augusta's Masters' Tournament, which is the great Bobby Jones's personal party, Bing's pro-amateur championship was the stop most top golfers least wanted to miss. Last week...
...team that won the pro-amateur best ball prize: Hershey, Pa. Pro Ben Hogan, Amateur John Dawson...