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...already a perfectionist, with eight years of painstaking practice behind him. When he made a sour shot, he would turn purple, talk purple, fling his club toward the next county. Young Bobby is happy-go-lucky, prone to grin rather than groan when he misses a three-foot putt. At 14, the Old Man could break 70.* Young Bobby is happy if he can break...
Sophomore Bill, "Uncle Bill," won five straight holes on the back nine to erase a five hole deficit and square his match with three holes to go. Then he won on the eighteenth when his opponent froze on a three-foot putt...
Pete MacGowan needed a tough five-foot putt on the eighteenth for his win. Don Elbel came up like a house afire at the end of his contest, and almost caught his man; he only lost by one down...
...lunch time he was 4 up on Brooke. When they returned for the second 18, Brooke began to creep up until he pulled even at the 27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder and I'm going to cook this putt," he drawled. To the astonishment...
...chatty Jimmy Demaret-in his first Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Few minutes later, along came unheralded Lloyd Mangrum to sink a 30-ft. putt on the home green and chalk up a record-breaking, eight-under-par 64 (32-32), probably the most amazing 18 holes of competitive golf ever played...