Word: snead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CORAL Gables, Fla.--Sam Snead and Ralph Guldahl, blazing home with a record-smashing blast, today won the International Four-Ball Championship, one of golf's severest tournament tests, and the $2000 top prize...
...Snead and Guldahl fired a steady barrage of unbeatable golf in the afternoon, after trailing most of the morning round, to trounce Horton Smith and Paul Runyan...
...opening tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. only 80 competitors turned up-possibly because White Sulphur is the home course of Sam Snead, sensational 25-year-old pro who in his second year of big-time golf has been a bugaboo to his confreres. Up to last week he had earned the astounding sum of $17,572 in tournament competition this year-$10,000 more than second-running Johnny Revolta and $2,000 more than the all-time record set by Horton Smith...
...Snead's colleagues feared that he might be doubly dangerous on his home course, they were exactly right. Except for a momentary lapse when he bungled a piddling putt, he gave his hillbilly neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...
Chattering over their "Sam Snead sundaes" in the village drugstore, natives figured that the youngest of the Snead boys had earned $18,272 this year, was anything but crazy to have taken up golf as a profession...