Word: putts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tense and drenched, Cotton had birdied the 18th hole with a tremendous putt in the morning round, for a 73. At least 2,000 galleryites set out with him after lunch, though the storm had reached its worst. Reginald Whitcombe was out in 39, they heard. Nursing every shot, Cotton reached the turn in 35, to learn that Whitcombe had straggled in with 76 for a total of 292. That left Cotton just 38 strokes to tie. His gallery trebled as, spurning waterproof clothes lest they bind his swing, the lithe, hawk-faced Cotton shot the first five holes...
Last week at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Birmingham, Mich., Golfer Guldahl had another short putt on the 18th green of his last round in the Open. This time he sank it. This time it meant not only winning the championship but doing it by two strokes, 281 to Sam Snead's 283, and breaking by a stroke the record Open score set by Tony Manero last year...
...whose gargantuan drives have made him for the past two years the most spectacular professional in the land. Golfer Thomson arrived at the 17th green needing a par and a birdie for a 64, by two strokes the lowest Open score on record. He then missed a 2-ft. putt by inches, missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen was restoring himself momentarily to a contending position with a 69 after a first round 78 and, as anticipated, Guldahl, Snead, Big Ed Dudley...
...opposite. So calm that he appeared preoccupied, he got birdies on the next two holes, played the remaining five in par despite ricocheting off a spectator into a trap at the 15th, combed his hair for the cameramen while strolling across the packed home green to sink his last putt for the title...
...been inherited by many Italian day laborers' sons, who caddied on the courses their fathers tended. Guldahl is the first ex-caddie of Norwegian descent to develop top-flight golfing talent. Reared in Texas, Guldahl's talents in the past have sometimes seemed misplaced. After his tragic putt in 1933 which, if it had gone into the cup, would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working as a carpenter's assistant in Hollywood to support...