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Says Larry Snead, a U.S. State Department expert on fisheries: "Worldwide, Atlantic salmon stocks are in trouble...
...said around golf that anyone who intends to win the Open is advised to do so early on. The very first tour victories of Nicklaus and Lee Trevino were Opens; Sam Snead never did win one. "I can't make it happen," Watson eventually concluded, after painful failures. "I have to let it happen." When it did, the release it brought him was something to see. "If you're there by quirk or luck," Watson says, "you're not nervous the same way you are when you are playing well and know you can win. Then...
...last month with the steadying aid of his 19-year-old son Steve, who caddied and read his putts. Hogan got to the chilling point where he could scarcely draw the putter blade back. "I've seen Ben smoke a whole cigarette over a 6-ft. putt," said Snead with a shiver. "Once you get the 'yips,' you never lose them." For almost ten years now Sam has been putting "sidesaddle." Literally and figuratively, he is the only great player who ever faced up to the yips. As unseemly as it is to be putting like...
...Snead may not be as free with lessons as Nelson, but he is not as tight with advice as Hogan. "Everyone should try keeping his hand in, whatever he does," he said. "If I stopped golfing for a month, I probably couldn't break...
...they aren't any better than we were, and they aren't near as much fun. What the heck, they don't seem to sing as many songs any more, or tell as many jokes any more. They make more money." And how much would Sam Snead have made if his prime were now? "What the heck, $10 million or SO." -By Tom Callahan