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...year and a new race for money-winning honors. This. too, was the first tournament in which they were officially compelled by the new U. S. Golf Association ruling (TIME, Jan. 11, 1937) to use not more than 14 clubs.* And worst of all-there was Sam Snead...
...little over a year ago the name Sam Snead might have been that of a wrestler or a race horse to the majority of U. S. sport addicts. But to a little rural group round Hot Springs, Va., Sam Snead was the youngest of the five Snead boys, the one who always kept "within hollering distance of his mother," the one who was a golf pro over at the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur and could drive 35 balls in a row for an average of 285 yards. Some of the drugstore hillbillies even ventured...
...Ralph Guldahl made the great comeback of the year. But Sam Snead made the great come-up. A million or more U. S. sport addicts now agree with the Virginia hillbillies, and some experts, notably Gene Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones...
...this winter's tour, Sam Snead has proved he is no.flash in the pan. In two weeks of play, ending Christmas Day, the cool, phlegmatic juvenile lead had won the Miami Open, the Nassau Open and placed fourth in the Miami-Biltmore Open. He had won $2,000 in two weeks, had played twelve rounds of grueling competitive golf with an average of less than 69 strokes a round. In the Miami Open he had reached his peak when he zoomed away from the field to finish 13 strokes under par, scoring a 68, 67, 66, 66. Sam Snead...
...singles matches. The British professionals hoped that the weather would favor their play but on the watery greens the U. S. golfers, and not they, putted dead to the cup. Opening against Padgham, Ralph Guldahl won four holes in the first nine, ended the match at the 29th. Sam Snead dismayed his opponent by blasting the ball 300 yd. at the eleventh, easily won 5 & 4. Denny Shute finished all even with young Sam King. Manero was defeated by Cotton and Nelson lost to little David Rees. By this time defense of the Ryder Cup fell to Gene Sarazen...