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Next day, in the playoff, Hogan, the Mechanical Man, blew a piddling, three-foot putt on the 16th. He never recovered. For the third time, by a margin of one stroke in 90 holes, Sam Snead was Master of the Masters...
...more and draw even with just one hole to go. But there his luck ran out. On the par-four last hole, Morey hit a trap, was on the green in three. The Navyman made it in two. As cool as ice, Gene Littler lined up a 20-ft. putt, briskly stroked it to the pin to become the new king of U.S. amateurs...
Nixon, a duffer who quailed visibly when asked by cameramen to display his swing. By the time Ike flubbed a five-foot putt on the ninth hole, it looked as if things were back to normal in vacationland...
...Triumph. Not until the final putt had been sunk did Ben unbend. Then he doffed his cap and smiled for the crowd. At the trophy presentation, Hogan made a little speech: "I didn't come here to take home a trophy. Whether I won or lost was incidental. I came over here because a lot of people back home wanted me to, and some people over here...
...chunky (220 Ibs.) Ed Oliver, and often out-hitting him, drew ohs & ahs from a crowd of some 10,000 with his fairway-splitting shots. The ahs changed to outright cheers on the ninth green when golfdom's mechanical man, after careful sighting, crisply stroked a 60-ft. putt into the cup for an outgoing four-under-par 32. The word that went around the Augusta gallery...