Word: snead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles Open. Shortly after noon, Ellsworth Vines shambled to the tee and drove off. It was a 250-yd. drive-but out-of-bounds. He tried again; his second ball went out. He was hooking badly. He tipped his cap to Jim Turnesa, who with Sam Snead made up the threesome. Drawled Vines: "Try it, Jim. Think I'll rest a while." A few minutes later, Vines got off a third try; it hooked too, but took a lucky bounce off a tree onto the fairway...
...sank 30-ft. putts, took the lead with another sub-par 70. But on the third day the winds came. Cotton had counted on St. Andrews' unpredictable gales to confound the four visiting Americans. But Cotton's own game was confounded too. The winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing was happening to everybody else, unpredictable Sammy Snead finally settled down to steady, safe playing. It won him his first...
...finished first was not Nelson, nor either of golf's other two big names-Sam Snead and Ben Hogan-but a new young master from Springfield, Mo. named Herman Reiser. A year ago 31-year-old Golfer Reiser was a storekeeper on the cruiser Cincinnati. He started in front and stayed there until he canned the last putt for a six-under...
...down with flu, gobbled some sulfa pills, decided to play anyhow. Despite a 102° fever, he fired a 68 to tie for the first-round lead in the $10.000 Dallas Open. But next day, woozy from sulfa, he slumped to 74. After that he could not catch Sam Snead (lately recovered from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer run he was a good bet to succeed wartime golf's king of the links, fast-greying Byron Nelson, now 18 Ibs. underweight after the nerve...
...Snead drew his biggest cheer when he nonchalantly selected a No. 5 iron, blasted out of a trap with a 175-yd. carry dead...