Word: snead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia two hours later. For two days April rains hampered Ike's golfing, but at last the sun came out and the President was able to play with a new partner: Lumber Salesman Billy Jo Patton, the sensational amateur from Morgantown, N.C., who finished third, right behind Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, in the recent Masters Tournament. Patton returned to Augusta after the Masters' especially to meet Ike. and together they trounced their opponents, Club Chairman Cliff Roberts and Columbus, Ga. Broker William Zimmerman. Ike carded a respectable 88 and Billy Jo had a sensational 68, including five...
...third round, those who thought the amateurs were only along for the ride began to nod knowingly. Amateur Patton, spraying shots, had a 75 and dropped into a tie for third. Hogan and Snead, playing careful, methodical golf, moved into first and second, three strokes apart...
Then, to everyone's surprise, last-day jitters caught up with the veterans. Hogan and Snead got off to shaky starts. Patton, a formidable five strokes off the pace, caught fire. His crisp iron shots were carrying to the greens, his putts were running sure and true. On the 190-yd. sixth, he smacked an astonishing hole...
...Snead, meanwhile, had found his touch again. He wound up with a par 72 and posted a total score of 289. Patton, with a commendable finishing 71, was home a stroke behind. Now Hogan was forced to gamble, and still his putts refused to drop. He needed a birdie three on the 18th to win. He had to settle for a par that tied him with Slammin' Sammy Snead...
Next day, in the playoff, Hogan, the Mechanical Man, blew a piddling, three-foot putt on the 16th. He never recovered. For the third time, by a margin of one stroke in 90 holes, Sam Snead was Master of the Masters...