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...winter golf circuit, ginger-haired Byron Nelson copped eight tournaments with a sensational 18-hole average of 68.4 strokes. Sparse-haired Samuel ("Sambo") Snead was a dangerous second, with six wins and a 69.2 average. Such figures promised little less than perfection for last week's two-day battle royal between the two best golfers in the land. Perhaps it was because they played for charity instead of pay, but the match proved nothing more startling than that Snead and Nelson were equally human where strokes count most-on the greens...
...breeze. He slapped the carpet with his hands, suffered awful tortures on the near misses. He three-putted two greens. West Virginia's Sambo contented himself with a puckered-up Bogart face and an occasional "Woof!" Neither of them sank a man-size putt all day. But Snead felt he couldn't lose, because it was his 33rd birthday, and he won by a stroke-with a three-over-par 70-73 = 143. He did it by outplaying ironmaster Nelson with the irons...
...Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange for an autograph-draining of a big lake yielded 16,000 waterlogged pellets for reprocessing...
Last week saw the opening of a new field to Doctor "I have a lady in the balcony" Reichard as he carried his gifted physique about the golf course in 100 or better. "Snead," says the Doc, "seems a little bit worried, but it may take me a few months to win the P.G.A. crown...
...hole total of 263, never drew a deep breath as he won the last (and his fourth straight) tourney of the winter circuit. The victory upped his 1945 earnings to $17,857, gave him an eight-to-six edge in tournaments won over capable but collapsible Sammy Snead...