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...golf's biggest prize, the U.S. Open. But he won enough assorted other tournaments this year to be far & away the game's leading money winner, with $30,893. Last week, with the poise of a magician about to perform his tricks, Sam stepped to the first tee of the Pinehurst (N.C.) Country Club for one of the last big tournaments of golf's fiscal year: the North and South Open...
...gallery tagging at his heels, he fired a par-smashing 68. That put him three strokes up on Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis who was U.S. Open champion and Snead's main rival for golfer-of-the-year. In the second round Sam hooked a tee shot into the rough for one bogey, chipped poorly for another, but wound up with a 70. Then Sam finished up in a blaze that left little doubt about who was golf...
...tournament's thin man (6 ft. 1 in., 135 lbs.), is an insurance broker from Ardmore, Okla. A more ardent golfer than King (he has twice won the Trans-Mississippi crown), 25-year-old Finalist Coe was the favorite as he squared off on the first tee. Both amateurs promptly began playing like amateurs. Coe, normally as cool as a barrel of ice water and deadly with a putter, three-putted the first green. Then he settled down and it was King's turn to blow...
...final round, Betger squared off against a fellow San Franciscan, Ken Towns, 20, student at San Mateo Junior College and part-time handyman about Crystal Springs golf course. The policeman's tee shots, true all week, began to go awry and his putter couldn't have been colder if it had been on ice. Towns closed out the match on the 33rd hole...
Bradshaw's drive off the fifth tee landed in the bottom half of a broken bottle lying in the rough. He studied the impossible lie, gulped and selected a niblick. One mighty swat sent glass splinters flying, but the ball trickled only a few feet. That stroke cost him the British Open...