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Samuel Jackson Snead had never forgotten his three most horrible minutes of golf, at Philadelphia's swanky Spring Mill course eight years ago. On the final hole, with golf's greatest prize-the U.S. Open -all but won, Sammy swung at the ball. There was a cloud of sand but he had missed the ball; it rolled feebly to the edge of a sand trap. Sammy swung again. The ball plunked to the edge of a trap on the opposite side of the green. To cap his rout, he missed a one-foot putt...
Last week at the St. Louis Country Club, Sammy Snead trudged onto the final green. Carefully, he plucked a leaf from the sod, squatted to survey the roll of the green. It was the U.S. Open Championship again, and he had to sink an 18-foot putt to get into the playoff match. Sammy stroked the ball, and a gallery of 3,000 stood in awed silence as it rolled up to the cup, plunked in. Then the gallery roared. Sammy puckered his lips and grinned. This time things were going to be different...
...Want of $100,000. For 72 holes, unpredictable Sam Snead had licked sport's toughest war of nerves by pretending to himself that he hated golf. He didn't like the greens and called them the worst he'd seen in any U.S. Open. As he dug into a clubhouse sundae before the first round, he told a newsman: "If I had another $100,000 I'd give my irons away; I'd stuff that golf bag over the caddie's head-got no urge to play golf any more...
After a golfless stretch as a B-24 pilot in the Italian campaign, Locke is just getting his competitive edge back. His first. U.S. victim was Slammin' Sammy Snead, whom he thoroughly trounced in South Africa last winter. The day after Locke stepped off the plane from Johannesburg last month, he played in the tough Masters' tournament, and carded...
...Angeles Open. Shortly after noon, Ellsworth Vines shambled to the tee and drove off. It was a 250-yd. drive-but out-of-bounds. He tried again; his second ball went out. He was hooking badly. He tipped his cap to Jim Turnesa, who with Sam Snead made up the threesome. Drawled Vines: "Try it, Jim. Think I'll rest a while." A few minutes later, Vines got off a third try; it hooked too, but took a lucky bounce off a tree onto the fairway...