Word: snead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hadn't cried when he won the Houston, the Hartford or the Honda. "It means what every little boy dreams about," he said finally, "when he plays golf all by himself late in the afternoon, and he puts down three or four balls. One is Snead, one is Hogan, one is Nicklaus and maybe one is Strange." And he is entered in the British Open in two weeks...
...tournament is televised, but real estate deals and deductible charities are involved. The trail of the old golfers is defined by condominiums, and, on two Pro-Am days a week, wealthy hackers or executives with expense accounts pay several thousand dollars apiece to have their putts read by Sam Snead, 71. "The funny thing is," Snead says without laughing, "my right eye is gone: no depth perception at all. I have to walk to the cup to see if a putt is uphill or down...
...affection for money is as legendary as he is, but since Snead profited by only $14,526 last year (admittedly, in 1937 he had to play all year and win four tournaments for that kind of prize money), something more than dollars must be at stake here. "I swing my driver now," he says, "but when I get to hitting those off-color shots, I want to throw the clubs in the closet forever and go hunting. But the funny thing is, I'm getting so I don't like to kill anything any more...
...heart attack; in Houston. The Professional Golfers' Association's top money winner in 1947 (his total: a now laughable $27,936), Demaret often sported garish garb that scandalized sartorially conservative fellow athletes but blazed the fairway trail for today's multihued golfers. Said an admiring Sam Snead of his hard-partying contemporary: "No telling what Jimmy would have done if he'd toed the line and gone to bed at a decent hour...
...many excellent golfers today, maybe a few too many of them towheads. "As Nicklaus says, 'There are better scorers today than ever before.' Not players, scorers," Watson notes. He leaves it to you to mull the distinction. "Nobody on tour today can play like Hogan or Snead," he says, "not even Nicklaus." There is nothing obvious to choose between any two of today's top 100 pros when you line them up at the practice tee, so it must be something inside that distinguishes a man "Something that allows you to deal with the task," Watson agrees...