Word: snead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are lucrative off-course sources, too. For 17 years Snead has been a member of the advisory staff of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co.. receiving a fat retainer and royalties on the sales of his signature clubs. He has invested in a California golf course and Florida real estate. He and Ted Williams are co-owners of a fishing-tackle company. Endorsements bring in a good stipend and three gleaming Nashes each year. He has made a golfing record, several films, draws royalties from four ghost-written books and a ghosted golfing column. And, like...
...Snead is careful with his money, but he doesn't keep it in tomato cans buried in his garden, as Jimmy Demaret alleges...
...Snead admits to an annual income of "right close to" $100,000, but claims that if he ever made a million, he has been robbed. He has a mountain boy's distrust of revenuers-in his case, Internal Revenuers, who visit him regularly. Sam gets nervous whenever he sees a story about his wealth: "You know, every time they read a story about me they clip it." The Little Dog's Tail. Last week, as he packed his bags for Baltusrol, Sam Snead seemed at peak form. The warm West Virginia sun and hot sulphur baths had relaxed...
...time when older players dominate the game (Hogan is 42; most of the other top-seeded players range from their mid-30s to 50). Snead looked as good in 1954 as he had looked in 1937. He recognizes that competitive golf is still a young man's game, and attributes the present dearth of young stars to the Korean...
...Snead expects a new crop of golfers will force him off the tournament courses before long. "Just gimme four more years," he says, "at $100,000 a year, and Snead will have made it." But before he turns in his clubs, Snead still has one deep desire: to win his first Open. He has been acting very much like a man who expected to win. In Augusta (TIME, April 19), he won the Masters, defeating his old bogey Hogan in a brilliant play-off.- And at the Palm Beach tournament in May, he won with a sizzling 338 for five...