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Even before sponsoring his illustrious Pro-Am, Crosby had hosted a tournament known as the Rancho Santa Fe Open as early as 1936. In 1937, his first year on the pro circuit, Sam Snead won the Rancho Santa Fe for his second tour victory. When someone showed "Slamming Sammy" a photograph of himself in the New York Times, he blurted, "How'd they ever get my picture? I ain't never been to New York...
...Masters has had very few dark horse winners. Between 1955-1967, Palmer, Nicklaus, and Player won eight out of nine. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead both won three times. After winning with a tournament record of 274 in 1953, Hogan said, "I hope I can come back next year and play the same caliber of golf." Byron Nelson, his playing partner, replied, "If you do, you'll be playing here all by yourself...
...time emerging from hibernation, as he missed the cut in the Hawaian Open and finished well back in the other events. The five-stroke win was the Bear's 61st PGA victory, which ties him on the all-time list with "the little colossus" Ben Hogan, behind Sam Snead...
...look for answers on the glamorous closing holes of the difficult 7,020-yd., par-72 course. If so, they will not see how the Masters is likely to be won. The tournament's toughest holes are far out on the course. That is the conclusion of Sam Snead, who has won the Masters three times (1949, '52, '54), and of Bill Inglish, tournament statistician. After studying the 1,292 individual rounds and more than 95,000 shots played at the Masters in the past five years, Inglish found that Augusta's six most difficult tests...
...every big winner, though, there is a big loser-and a dozen iffy investments. Narragansett Capital, the nation's largest publicly owned S.B.I.C., has lost $1,081,000 bankrolling Sam Snead All American Golf, Inc. "A venture capitalist looks for a return of ten times his original investment," says Harlan Anderson, head of Anderson Investment Co. in New Canaan, Conn., "but you're lucky if you get that kind of return in one case out of ten, so it evens out." And some venture capitalists go bust along with the businesses they buy into; 400-odd S.B.I.C.s have...