Word: snead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter golf circuit, ginger-haired Byron Nelson copped eight tournaments with a sensational 18-hole average of 68.4 strokes. Sparse-haired Samuel ("Sambo") Snead was a dangerous second, with six wins and a 69.2 average. Such figures promised little less than perfection for last week's two-day battle royal between the two best golfers in the land. Perhaps it was because they played for charity instead of pay, but the match proved nothing more startling than that Snead and Nelson were equally human where strokes count most-on the greens...
...breeze. He slapped the carpet with his hands, suffered awful tortures on the near misses. He three-putted two greens. West Virginia's Sambo contented himself with a puckered-up Bogart face and an occasional "Woof!" Neither of them sank a man-size putt all day. But Snead felt he couldn't lose, because it was his 33rd birthday, and he won by a stroke-with a three-over-par 70-73 = 143. He did it by outplaying ironmaster Nelson with the irons...
Nelson, who can play championship golf with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson...
...Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange for an autograph-draining of a big lake yielded 16,000 waterlogged pellets for reprocessing...
Last week saw the opening of a new field to Doctor "I have a lady in the balcony" Reichard as he carried his gifted physique about the golf course in 100 or better. "Snead," says the Doc, "seems a little bit worried, but it may take me a few months to win the P.G.A. crown...