Word: snead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a team - Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...
...play's end the first day, it looked sad indeed for Captain Sarazen. Only Demaret & Hogan, the two Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...
...when the field's first half had turned in their cards, tied at 156 were 65-year-old onetime Champion Douglas and 59-year-old Archibald M. Brown, classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard. Mr. Douglas' first-round 73 (eight strokes better than Sam Snead's last-round score in the U. S. Open fortnight ago) equaled the lowest score ever recorded in 35 years of Senior competition...
...hole final, Snead's following thinned out. Word got round that Lawson Little, playing with the same mastery that won the U. S. and British Amateurs in 1934 and 1935, was in the groove...
...stretch finish just as breath-taking as the one to which he treated his gallery at Skokie 18 years ago, Sarazen chalked up the 34 he needed, tied Lawson Little for the championship with a 72-hole total of 287,-eight strokes better than Sam Snead, three strokes better than Hogan, Guldahl and Nelson...