Word: turnesa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Putter. In the six days of match play, many a good golfer fell by the fairwayside. Skee Riegel narrowly missed defeat in the first round by a Sunday golfer "I've never heard of before," then bowed out in the third. By the fifth round, when Willie Turnesa met Marvin ("Bud") Ward, they were the only ex-titleholders left...
Willie, 34-year-old "baby" of the seven-famed golfing Turnesa brothers (the other six are pros), had brought along good luck in his golf bag. It was his mother-in-law's 15-year-old putter, the same club that had helped Willie win the 1947 British Amateur (TIME, June 9, 1947). Turnesa and his putter were hot on the slow Bermuda greens,* and Ward lost...
...Drizzle. Two days later, after taking their semifinal matches with little trouble, Willie Turnesa and Ray Billows teed off for the 36-hole finals. The long, exhausting tournament was telling on both of the contestants. Turnesa played the morning round in 74 and Billows in 77 (par: 70). At the halfway mark, Willie...
...Muscles") Stranahan was staying abreast of par. But they stayed even with each other, with 795 on the first round. Then Stowe, completely unstarched, bowed to Stranahan 5-&-4. ¶ | At St. Louis, in the $30,000 Professional Golfers Association championship, cool Ben Hogan systematically went about chopping Mike Turnesa to pieces in the final. Hogan won 7-&-6, collected first prize ($3,500) and left for Fort Worth with a motorcycle escort sendoff. The way he felt about the P.G.A.: "You have to finish first or second to make it worth the effort and then you're dead...
...first nine, went five holes ahead. Then Willie won five holes in a row to tie it up. At the 27th Willie went one up. On the next five holes Dick Chapman, playing the best golf of his career, racked up four pars and a birdie; Turnesa matched him stroke for stroke. On the 33rd Chapman faltered, missed a six-foot putt, and Turnesa took the hole. On the 34th, with a chance to stay in the running by halving, Chapman worried over his crucial putt for a full five minutes. Then he missed it. He turned to the crowd...