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Next day, in an 18-hole playoff, while the gallery was still talking about Sam Snead's heart-breaking blowup that snatched the championship from him on the very last of the 72 holes, Craig Wood furnished the 5,000 spectators with a golf round even more dramatic. On that same 18th hole where an 8 brought tragedy to Snead, Wood, leading Nelson by one stroke, hooked his second shot. The ball struck a spectator flush on the temple, knocked him unconscious. Completely unnerved as State troopers carried the stricken man off to the clubhouse, Wood flubbed an eight...
...chalked up in the third round of the Texas Open by Harold ("Jug") McSpaden (in a warm-up round he shot 59). In the Miami Four-Ball Tournament Partners Ralph Guldahl & Sam Snead played nine holes...
...played on Bobby Jones's "dream course" in Augusta, Ga. Most golfers hope that Bobby Jones, now 37, paunchy and a 40-to-1 shot, may still win this tournament. As the sixth annual Masters' began last week, favorites were Open Champion Ralph Guldahl, Hillbilly Sam Snead and lanky Henry Picard, last year's winner...
...money players stayed in the money. Finishing with a smoking 68 Sam Snead broke the tournament record by two strokes with 280, seemed the winner. Ralph Guldahl started the last nine needing a 33, three under par, to beat him. He got a birdie, two pars. Then he hit a weak, 22O-yd. drive on the 480-yd. 13th and his jig seemed to be up. His ball was in a downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung...
...Snead and Guldahl fired a steady barrage of unbeatable golf in the afternoon, after trailing most of the morning round, to trounce Horton Smith and Paul Runyan...