Word: putt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other two big names-Sam Snead and Ben Hogan-but a new young master from Springfield, Mo. named Herman Reiser. A year ago 31-year-old Golfer Reiser was a storekeeper on the cruiser Cincinnati. He started in front and stayed there until he canned the last putt for a six-under...
...Open tourney was always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
...near solution." Neither was it in a state of "crisis." Said a British diplomat in Washington: "We are now where we should have been two months ago. We are out of the bunker and back on the fairway. There is still an iron shot and at least one putt before we sink the ball...
...knees and rolled with the breeze. He slapped the carpet with his hands, suffered awful tortures on the near misses. He three-putted two greens. West Virginia's Sambo contented himself with a puckered-up Bogart face and an occasional "Woof!" Neither of them sank a man-size putt all day. But Snead felt he couldn't lose, because it was his 33rd birthday, and he won by a stroke-with a three-over-par 70-73 = 143. He did it by outplaying ironmaster Nelson with the irons...
...backswing. Once he knows the range, he can drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first bounce.) His one weakness is with the putter. He is inclined to stroke a short putt too hard, and is more likely to sink a 20-footer than a three-footer. He knows and bemoans this frailty, but a bad session on the greens never fails to ruffle his manufactured composure...