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...around him, as they almost always do in the amateur championships, amateur hot-shots stumbled and fell. Billy Joe Patton, the hard-hitting Carolina lumber dealer was cut down in the second round; last year's runner-up, Charles Kocsis, was bumped in the fifth; Willie Turnesa, winner in 1938 and 1948, lost a 24-hole marathon to an unknown Florida insurance underwriter named Jack Penrose. Just as he began to get his game under control, Robbins found himself in the finals, matched with his Walker Cup teammate, Dr. Frank ("Bud") Taylor, 40, a Pomona, Calif. dentist...
...Peter Thomson, 24, became the youngest winner of the British Open golf tournament since Bobby Jones won at the same age in 1926. Thomson's 283 was just one stroke under Runners-up Bobby Locke, Syd Scott and Dai Rees, all bunched at 284. Closest American was Jim Turnesa, who tied for fifth with...
...match play tournament-one bad round and you're out-the P.G.A. has long eluded the Turnesa family. In 1927, a year after he lost the U.S. Open by a stroke to Bobby Jones, Joe Turnesa lost in the P.O.A. final to Walter Hagen. In the 1942 final Jim Turnesa lost to Sam Snead. In 1948 Mike Turnesa lost to Ben Hogan. That was the year that Brother Willie, the only amateur in the family, won his second U.S. amateur title to go along with his 1947 British championship...
...Louisville final last week, Jim Turnesa met Melvin ("Chick") Harbert, 37, a slam-bang hitter who had also failed as a P.G.A. finalist (against Jim Ferrier in 1947). Harbert's booming drives consistently outdistanced Turnesa in the morning 18 holes. At the lunchtime break, Turnesa, after getting in and out of five traps, was three holes down to Harbert's 2-under-par 70. Turnesa, as spunky as he is chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match...
...Harbert was caught on a hook of his own making. With the match all even after the 35th, Harbert's hooked drive on the 438-yard 36th nestled plunk behind a left-fairway fir tree, stymied from the green. Harbert could only pitch out into the fairway. Turnesa drove straight and true, pitched dead to the green, holed out in two putts and won the match with a par, one up. Said Turnesa, speaking for the rest of the family: "We've been trying to get our name on that trophy for over 30 years...