Word: snead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first to blow was Rookie Mackey. Unnerved by his gallery of 6,000, he took a seven on the 4th, heading for a shaky 81 and a final tournament standing of 26th place. He was not the only one to go. Veteran Sam Snead had been losing stroke after stroke on the greens. "I'm puttin' as though my doggone arms wuz broke," moaned Sam. As the incoming scores went up on the huge scoreboards, other topflighters began to slip: Jimmy Demaret (149 for the first 36 holes), Al Brosch (151), Lawson Little (153). But iron-nerved...
Defending Champion Sammy Snead of West Virginia and U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...
...other determined men present. Australian-born San Franciscan Jim Ferrier used a gimpy backswing (result of a football injury), but he had a delicate putting touch over the tricky greens. By the end of the second day he held a four-stroke lead over Hogan, live strokes over Demaret. Snead and Middlecoff were trailing; the Masters became a pursuit of the seven-under-par pace set by the gangling Australian...
...tournament would be his by three strokes. Instead, his trusty putter began to vibrate under the tension, shook him into misses for a costly 75. Demaret backed into the title by two strokes. His winning score for 72 holes: a five-under-par 283. The runners-up: Ferrier (285), Snead (287), and Hogan and Texas' Byron Nelson (288 apiece...
...last week his game had a gleaming, steely and tempered polish; he took the lead in the first round of Florida's $10,000 St. Petersburg Open, went on to win with a dazzling twelve-under-par 272 over such high-powered competitors as Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead...