Word: putte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warming up on the Los Angeles Open early last month, Ben had come in behind Lloyd Mangrum and nine others. But as he sank his final putt for a birdie, he promised: "Things are going to get better." A week later, Ben won the Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...
...Here, drop 15 balls in this sand trap here.' Then he'll blast every one of them out. If he's not satisfied, he'll blast another 15. He'll even memorize the grain of the grass. He'll putt till hell won't have...
...clubs and started swinging. Since left-handed clubs were hard to come by, he became a righthander. But he seemed to have little natural talent. Says Denny Lavender, West Point golf coach who grew up with Ben: "He didn't do one thing right. He couldn't putt. As a kid he practically ran at the ball...
Little Ben Hogan, the golfer of the year, squatted on the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club (Calif.) last week, studying a downhill five-foot putt. His opponents regard the process with some awe; Hogan habitually comments that a green is a "hard one to think"; he doesn't say that it is hard to play. He sank the five-footer...
...putt gave him an eight-under-par 64, a new course record, and $2,450 first place in the $15,000 Glendale Open. It had been a big day: Hogan had a dozen one-putt greens, and came from behind to win. Then 137-lb. Ben, who has won $37,047 and eleven tournaments this year (including the National Open and P.G.A. Championships), got ready to take his first real vacation in twelve years...