Word: snead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Samuel Jackson Snead all will hit 70 this year, a pretty good score when you consider the course. Almost 40 years since he was able to win eleven golf tournaments in a row, Nelson is in Texas being venerable and staying available to Tom Watson whenever the kid needs a lesson. Hogan is in Texas being difficult and hanging up on Gary Player when the South African calls for advice. ("Mr. Player, are you affiliated with a club manufacturer?" "Dunlop." "Call Dunlop." Click.) Snead last week was in Ohio being Snead and so was playing...
...done it? "What the heck, never having golf lessons helped some." As Nelson says with envy but without resentment, "Hogan and I worked hard to perfect our swings. Sam was born with his." Even the best golfers' swipes show the strain of their various checkpoints, but Snead still makes his velvet swing seem the most natural thing for a man to do. Over the decades, only Sam has noticed much change. "Some rusty spots," he said. "I'm not as strong as I was when...
...last month with the steadying aid of his 19-year-old son Steve, who caddied and read his putts. Hogan got to the chilling point where he could scarcely draw the putter blade back. "I've seen Ben smoke a whole cigarette over a 6-ft. putt," said Snead with a shiver. "Once you get the 'yips,' you never lose them." For almost ten years now Sam has been putting "sidesaddle." Literally and figuratively, he is the only great player who ever faced up to the yips. As unseemly as it is to be putting like...
...Snead...
...Casper. This was golf's newest big championship, the U.S. Senior Open, for competitors over 50. Palmer, 51, produced one of his famous charges in the playoff, coming from behind to beat Casper and Bob Stone for the $26,000 first prize. One other senior, notably Sam Snead, 69, objected to a ban on golf carts, but not Palmer, who has lost 20 lbs. over the past two years by running on the golf course next to his Latrobe, Pa., home. Said a buoyant Palmer: "I haven't played golf like this in five years...