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After receiving a prize as "best-dressed" golfer at the tournament, Snead started out early the last afternoon needing a 71 for 283. When he got it and walked into the locker room he was congratulated as the new champion. Then word came in that, though Dudley, Cooper and Thomson had passed out of the picture, and Cruickshank was safely behind at 285, curly-haired Guldahl was burning up the first nine...
...putt by inches, missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen was restoring himself momentarily to a contending position with a 69 after a first round 78 and, as anticipated, Guldahl, Snead, Big Ed Dudley and British-born Harry Cooper, who has twice turned out to be runner-up in the Open after posting a score apparently good enough to win, were fighting with Thomson for the lead...
...over the U. S., reproduced as effectively as the land allowed the sweeping dunes of his native sea coast, Oakland Hills is notable for its raised, table-like greens. This feature tends to handicap players like Sarazen, who hit low-flying iron shots, favors bigger, stronger players like Snead, Dudley and Guldahl who can use clubs with more loft to drop the ball on the table from on high...
Last week, the course had achieved its effect by the time the last round started. Gene Sarazen had offered to bet $500 that no one would break 288 (even fours and par). Snead had predicted that he would beat 292 and finish at least second...
Starting out with the same score as Snead, Guldahl had just missed birdies on the first four holes, holed a 50-footer for a birdie on the fifth. He took a weak bogey on the sixth and parred the seventh. This left him needing to shoot one under par for eleven holes to tie Snead. Guldahl met the situation with a screaming eagle 3 on the 491-yd. eighth, a birdie 2 on the short ninth, to be out in 33 and three shots under Snead to that point...