Word: souchak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroke lead. On the last day Bill Casper, golf's best putter, bogeyed three of the last eight holes, but finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back to wait, and wait. Into contention shot a pair of rugged challengers: Mike Souchak, 32, onetime Duke University All-America football player, and Bob Rosburg, 32, onetime captain of Stanford University's N.C.A.A. champion golf team...
Burly Mike Souchak birdied the tough 16th hole to move within a stroke of the lead, but an overstroked approach gave him a bogey on the 18th and he was out of the running. Rosburg, who grips a club like a baseball bat, sank a chip shot and 30-ft. putt for successive birdies on the 11th and 12th. But on the final hole he needed to sink a 40-ft. putt to tie. It stopped a foot short, and Bill Casper was the U.S. Open champion...
...Burly Mike Souchak, onetime Duke University end, fired a brilliant 6-under-par 66 in the first round, kept the pressure on, posted a two-stroke victory in the $46,620 Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas, Nev. Runner-up: Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., who faded on the final nine holes...
Meanwhile, down in the tropics, Mike Souchak was praying-in the 40-foot putt on the 18th green which clicked the $15,000 Thunderbird Invitational Golf Tournament into a three...
...Souchak, defending champion Jimmy Demaret, and Ken Venturi will play it off today over the Palm Springs California course...