Word: snead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most duffers, Henry Hook tried everything. He bought Jack Nicklaus golf clubs, Arnold Palmer golf gloves and Ben Hogan golf shoes; he memorized Gary Player's Positive Golf, watched Dow Finsterwald's Golf Tips on TV, and visited a Sam Snead Driving Range three times a week. He used balls with rubber centers, steel centers and liquid centers, switched from a cash-in putter to a bull's-eye putter to a mallet-head putter. And he still couldn't break 100. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I played worse last year...
...about $20-$45 for a full set of woods and irons) than steel, aluminum-shafted clubs have received impressive testimonials from the pros. Arnold Palmer used them to win this year's Los Angeles and Tucson Opens, is now marketing his own line of clubs. Billy Casper, Sam Snead, Gary Middlecoff and Julius Boros all are experimenting with aluminum clubs, and George Archer claims that his new aluminum-shafted driver gives him an extra 15 yards of distance on every tee shot. That, says Archer, helps account for the fact that...
...Walter Hagen, or Byron Nelson, or Ben Hogan, or Sam Snead, or Arnold Palmer - or any other American for that matter. The alltime champion is Roberto de Vicenzo, a balding, 44-year-old Argentine of Italian peasant stock who turned pro at 14 and posted his first victory three years later - shooting a 277 for 72 holes that still stands as the course record at the Rosario Golf Club...
...SNEAD GOLF SHOW (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Slamming Sam, possessor of one of the game's smoothest swings, demonstrates the fine art of driving from the tee. Filmed at the Firestone Country Club in Akron...
...SNEAD GOLF SHOW (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Sam starts an instructional series that includes a helpful round with an elderly duffer at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Premiere...