Word: turnesas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have taken three eights, but Smith just did what he wanted to, and saw his name put up in first place when he posted his score-Horton Smith, unattached. His score was 278, Jones', 279. Four days later, at Orlando, he won the Central Florida Open, beating Mike Turnesa and Harry Cooper by two strokes apiece...
...Turnesa beat Britain's Ernest Whitcombe on the 19th hole...
...England, where the Ryder cup was won for Great Britain (TIME, May 6) went U. S. and British professionals last week to play in the Yorkshire Evening News 1,000 guineas ($5,000) tournament. Again, Walter Hagen lost to George Duncan. Leo Diegel won a nickname, "Eagle-Diegel." Joe Turnesa won the 1,000 guineas from sad-faced Herbert Jolly of England by holing a chip shot for an eagle 3 at the 37th hole. Other spectacular moments...
...Walter Hagen won the Eastern Open Championship. The course, a 6,500-yard layout, was an exceptionally difficult one, with long carries, tough sea-grass in the roughs, greens intricately trapped. Two rounds of 72 would probably, the greensmen thought, be good enough to win; such stars as Joseph Turnesa, Emmet French, Cyril Walker struggled to get less than 80; John Farrell, with a 69, declared that he had played the best golf of his life. Walter Hagen, on his first round, took four strokes less. He broke the world's record for 36 holes of medal play with...
...over his right shoulder. Three hundred yards down the course the ball stopped rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that meant riches, pleasure, fame. Jones had two to win. His first putt missed. Turnesa was frozen now. If someone...