Word: snead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having given up their annual swing around the grapefruit circuit last winter, top-flight golfers got together in the North and South Open at Pinehurst, N.C. New eligibility rule: players must be over 38 or in uniform. With such stars as Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson missing, Veteran Bobby Cruickshank, 48 and a grandfather, bagged the tournament with a mediocre 292, just 21 strokes above Hogan's winning score last year...
...cast showed up last week. Among the missing were four of the tour's annual headliners: Ben Hogan, leading low-scorer the past three years (now a civilian aviation student); Byron Nelson, always close on his heels (denied his plane transportation from Texas at the last moment); Sam Snead, most idolized of U.S. pros (now a third-class seaman in the Navy); and Craig Wood, National Open champion (now a captain in the Marines...
...Slammin' Sam Snead: the match play championship of the Professional Golfers' Association, only national golf title attainable this year; defeating U.S. Army Corporal Jimmy Turnesa, youngest of the six Turnesa pros, 2 and 1 in the final; at the Seaview Country Club, near Atlantic City. Though Snead is considered the best shotmaker since Bobby Jones, this is his first national golf title. This week he enters the Navy...
...holed out for 1941, little Ben was awarded the Harry Vardon Trophy (which goes to the most consistent winner of the year) for the second year in a row. His tournament winnings for 1941 totaled $18,358, approximately $1,000 short of the all-time record set by Sam Snead three years ago. In 1941 Snead finished second ($12,848), Byron Nelson third...
...Slammin' Sam Snead of Hot Springs, Va.: the Canadian Open golf championship; for the third time in four years; with a 72-hole total of 274 (71-68-66-69); over the Lambton golf course, Toronto. Snead, one of the world's greatest shotmakers, has never won a national U.S. golf championship...