Word: snead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under such pressure, Sam Snead, 44, took 40 goes at it to finish nine holes (five over par), which assured his 16th defeat in 16 tries at the Open. Jack Fleck, last year's winner, did not even qualify for the final two rounds. When the 51 finalists lined up for the last 36 holes on the lush green course, an affable, free-swinging Australian named Peter Thomson, 26, held the lead by a single stroke over Old Pro Ben Hogan, out for his fifth Open title. Rangy Gary Middlecoff, 35, the Memphis dentist, was only two strokes back...
...Played 18 holes at White Sulphur Springs, triumphing with Partner Sammy Snead over White House Press Secretary James Hagerty and Appointments Secretary Bernard Shanley. The President's score...
...Harvard would not be setting any precedents--but only following the lead of its well-respected sister university in the Midwest. Surely the University could spare enough capital to set up the Sam Snead Professorship in Applied Golfing Tactics and the Goren Chair of Whist Certainly these are more useful subjects than coin-collecting (Harvard once had an Honorary Curator of Numismatic Literature...
Fluid Swing. It had been happening all week. First-round scores were amazingly high; half the field failed to break 80. As the tournament shook down, the big names vanished. Defending Champion Ed Furgol never figured; Samuel Jackson Snead, with two good rounds under his belt, exploded all over the course. ("Well, I've had my opportunity, boy," he muttered to his caddy.) Now, going to the 14- green on the fourth round was the one man who still had a chance of catching Hogan: Jack Fleck, 32, a loose-jointed sharpshooter out of Davenport, Iowa, who never took...
...from The Citadel, a military college headed by Old Soldier Mark Clark. From Charleston he will fly on to Augusta, where he hopes to stay until April 24 or 25, getting in a few golf rounds with his alternate choices to win the Masters Tournament, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead...