Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professional Golfers Association lists him fourth among the top professionals of the half-century, after Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen. Sam Snead's golf glory lies in the fact that, more than any other player, he has made the game seem dramatic and human...
...Sam Snead's long-standing private war. He has started in the Open 13 times; each time he has failed. Some shrewd golfers-Bobby Jones for one-have flatly predicted that Snead will never make...
...defending champion, Ben Hogan, was still weak from a siege of virus and uneasy about his chances of a fifth victory.- The sentimental favorite, the man most golf fans hoped would win, was unquestionably Sam Snead...
...most disastrous performance was undoubtedly the famed 18th hole at Spring Mill near Philadelphia in the Open of 1939. It has become a classic of a kind. His first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward...
...Greenbrier Open in 1951, he had a tremendous moment on the 12th hole, a wicked, 535-yard par five. Sam's drive faded into the rough, but left him with a fair lie. He asked Curtis Griffith, his regular caddy, what club he recommended...