Word: snead
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Several freshmen won in their first collegiate indoor track meet. John Cinelli ran the 1000-meter for the first time Saturday and won. David Grimm won the 35-pound weight, Richard Bravin won the 55-meter hurdles, Kevin Worrell won the 200-meter and Aaron Snead won the pole vault. Nnamdi Okike, Osahon Omoregie and Kobie fuller teamed up with Ciollo to win the four-by-400 meter relay...
...Open at Pebble Beach in '92," says Kite, "it was, 'Oh, no, another 40-year-old wins a major.' There just weren't a lot of 20-year-olds out there at the time." Indeed, golf history seems as well-ordered as Sunday afternoon groupings: Hogan, Nelson and Snead, all born in 1912; Palmer, Player and Nicklaus, winning 10 of 16 majors (1960-63); Watson, Kite and Crenshaw, turning pro one right after the other...
...took the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open. His mystique was further enhanced by the 1967 Masters, when he shot a record 30 on the back nine. In the par-3 tourney before this year's Masters, Ernie Els found himself in a group with Gary Player and Sam Snead. When Els asked Player how he should address the great Snead, Player replied, "Sam will be fine. If we were playing with Ben Hogan, though, you'd call him Mr. Hogan...
RICHARD NIXON Nixon struggled to get his handicap down to 14, but he was never a fanatic about the rules. Sam Snead recalled once playing with the President when Nixon's ball flew into a thicket. Moments later, Snead saw the ball arc onto the fairway. "I knew he threw it out," wrote Snead, but "what could...
...With his broad shoulders and strong legs, the result is blinding club speed. According to golf coach David Leadbetter, the average pro golf swing moves the club head at perhaps 110 m.p.h. Daly's driver may be traveling 140 m.p.h. when it hits the ball. Says golf legend Sam Snead, who also hit thunderous drives in his prime: "I never saw a man who could take a club that far back and drive that well for that long. But if that swing ever comes unglued, they will never find the ball...