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...year-old Paul Runyan lived up to his reputation. First he eliminated Levi Lynch. Then he put out Tony Manero, Ray Mangrum, Horton Smith and Henry Picard, four of the game's master shotmakers. Facing him in the final was the biggest titan of them all, young Sam Snead, leading money-winning pro of the year and quite a bugaboo himself. Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs had reached the final 23 strokes under par (for 165 holes), and was 2-to-1 favorite...
...Lightweight Paul Runyan, whose tee shots carry no further than the average week-end golfer's, played the sort of game that breaks an opponent's spirit. Although outdriving him 40 to 50 yards on each hole, Snead watched his advantage melt around the greens where Runyan's game was hotter than the noonday sun. At the end of the morning round, Titan Snead was ready to throw his clubs in the nearby Delaware. He had not succeeded in winning a hole. Runyan was 5 up, had been leading ever since the third hole...
Whatever hope harassed young Snead might have imbibed with his lunch soon evaporated in the afternoon round. On the 24th green he won his first hole. On the 27th, he was 7 down. On the 29th, White Plains licked White Sulphur. Paul Runyan had won his second P. G. A. championship with a score of 8 and 7, the most decisive margin since the tournament was inaugurated...
...Open fortnight ago: the Western Open championship, second ranking open tournament in the country; for the third year in a row; with a score of 279, including a six-under-par 65 on the last round; at the Westwood Country Club, St. Louis. Runner-up was Sam Snead with 286. Champion Guldahl is the first golfer in the 38-year history of the event to win the title three times in succession...
That Harry Cooper is still No. 1 golfer in the U. S. was conclusively demonstrated during this winter's competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop...