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...when he ran into wiry Mike Turnesa in the second round of match play, the invalid threw away his mental crutches. The veteran Turnesa was red hot. Nelson, just plain hot, was two down with four holes to go, but he was not quite ready to be counted out. Summoning his last reserve of calm (a rival pro says that if Nelson gave anyone a blood transfusion, the beneficiary would come down with pneumonia), the champ shot a birdie and took the 33rd hole. Another birdie evened the match on the 34th. An eagle 3 on the 475-yd. 35th...
Such was the end of the first national P.G.A. tournament in two years, played despite the absence of 410 PGAers in the service (including Ben Hogan, Horton Smith, Vic Ghezzi, Jim Turnesa, Jim Demaret). And the last match was not the only interesting one. On hand were...
...Slammin' Sam Snead: the match play championship of the Professional Golfers' Association, only national golf title attainable this year; defeating U.S. Army Corporal Jimmy Turnesa, youngest of the six Turnesa pros, 2 and 1 in the final; at the Seaview Country Club, near Atlantic City. Though Snead is considered the best shotmaker since Bobby Jones, this is his first national golf title. This week he enters the Navy...
McCullough's performance had been even more extraordinary than Chapman's. Strictly a weekend golfer, he had chalked up the second best score in the medal round, then proceeded to eliminate three of the country's best amateurs: Willie Turnesa, 1938 champion; Johnny Fischer, 1936 champion; Ray Billows, twice runner-up in the last three years. Against Chapman, however, he lost his touch. In the most one-sided final since 1895, Dick Chapman shook Warrington Bannerman McCullough out of his trance, trounced...
Last week, after the second 18-hole round, on the sidelines were the great Johnny Goodman, who has also won the National Open (1933), Willie Turnesa, 1938 Amateur champion, many other top-flights. Still in stride, however, among the 16 survivors, were: 1) Poughkeepsie's Ray Billows, golf's handsome, glamorous, 25-year-old Cinderella Man, who got a toehold on golf fame in 1935 by driving to swank Winged Foot on the Sound in a $7 jalopy to win the New York State title; and 2) 26-year-old, icy-veined Marvin ("Bud") Ward, of Spokane...