Word: snead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professional Golfers Association lists him fourth among the top professionals of the half-century, after Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen. Sam Snead's golf glory lies in the fact that, more than any other player, he has made the game seem dramatic and human...
...literally addresses the ball. "Come on, little ball," he will mutter. "Now git up there on the green like ah say." Snead lacks Hogan's machine-tool precision, but he is as durable as Sarazen, as handy with the irons as Byron Nelson, and he outdrives Bobby Jones in his prime by a full 20 yards. Like Babe Ruth (to whom his fans often compare him) and the little girl with the curl, Snead is sensationally good when he is good-and when he is bad he is horrid. He is never dull. He plays a gamboling, gambling game...
...Snead's long-standing private war. He has started in the Open 13 times; each time he has failed. Some shrewd golfers-Bobby Jones for one-have flatly predicted that Snead will never make...
...Snead fans are betting that this time he will. Most agree with Gene Sarazen, who says: "If he doesn't make it this time, he never will." The Battleground. For days before the big battle began, at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club, the contestants toiled along the fairways and the fast, king-size greens, trying to learn the secrets of the layout...
...defending champion, Ben Hogan, was still weak from a siege of virus and uneasy about his chances of a fifth victory.- The sentimental favorite, the man most golf fans hoped would win, was unquestionably Sam Snead...