Word: sub-par
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...Stolid, stoop-shouldered, 26-year-old Ralph Guldahl: the U. S. Open golf championship; defeating 164 of the country's top-notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke...
When the tournament ended, Jones and Little were out of the picture, and two seasoned money-playing professionals from Chicago had taken their place. On the first day, in a cold wind that stiffened contestants' fingers, "Light Horse" Harry Cooper posted a 70, the day's only sub-par score. A 69 for his second round left him five strokes ahead of the field. His third round was a creditable 71, but by this time, tall, willowy Horton Smith, who won the first Augusta Masters' Tournament in 1934, was on his heels, only three strokes behind...
March 24-25: Lake Superior State, the defending national champion, skates into Bright for an NCAA quarterfinal series. After a pair of sub-par performances, Lake Inferior State limps out of Cambridge...