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Bobby Locke liked the clink of Yankee dollars, and made no secret of it. He scolded galleryites who took pictures, and his cap-tipping became an automatic gesture. Said easygoing Golfer Sammy Snead: "He's O.K. ... he just wants to make a million dollars." When one newsman approached Locke for an interview, he was told: "If it's anything instructional, old boy, I'm afraid I'll have to charge you for it. Sorry, but that's the way it is." For $100 he would talk...
...British Open golf championship died when haughty Henry Cotton took a second-round 78 and stormed off the green in a huff. One London paper consoled its readers: "For a welcome change, the Americans are not in the van." In fact, most topflight U.S. pros, including Defending Champion Sam Snead, did not even show up.* The winner: jaunty little Ulsterite Fred Daly of Belfast, who grinned and said: "It's lucky to be Irish...
...Most were playing in Chicago's raucous, $36,390 Tam O'Shanter tourney, which carries no prestige but is worth $7,000 to the winner, against $600 first-prize money in the British Open. Snead, who tied for 16th at Tam O'Shanter, said that the trip to England to win the British crown last year left him $400 in the hole...
...with newsreels grinding beside him and shot a par. That gave him a two-under-par 282 for the 72 holes; he went off nervously to the lockerroom for a bottle of beer. He had the lead but it was not much of one. Twenty minutes later, Oldtimer Sam Snead sank his last putt for a birdie, to tie Worsham...
...good drives of about 260 yards. Both pitched up to within 25 feet of the pin, though Worsham was still off the green. It looked like another playoff unless either sank a long one. Worsham shot first; his ball hit the right edge of the cup and bounced out. Snead's putt was short. Officials got out a tape measure: Snead's ball was 30½ inches away; Worsham's was 29½ inches. Without any green-reading, Sammy putted quickly. He missed the cup by two inches. Once again hard-luck Sammy Snead had blown...