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Bantam Ben Hogan had played good golf since his comeback last winter (TIME, Jan. 16), but he had yet to win a tournament. In the Greenbrier open tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. this week, he made up for all that. Ben's winning score: a 21-under-par 259 for 72 holes, tying the alltime world record for play on a par-70 regulation course. Said Ben: "I'm picking up where I left...
...sixth annual carnival-tournament, flamboyant Promoter May drew the biggest crowds ever to see a golf tournament. They saw Herman Barren 36, a stocky, swarthy veteran from White Plains, N.Y., score an 8-under-par 280 to beat the big names. It was worth $10.500. Ellsworth Vines, ex-tennis champ who turned to golf in 1940 because he considered it less monotonous, came his closest yet to winning a major tournament, taking the $4,325 second money with a 281. Vines was one of twelve pros who refused to wear an identification number; if he had worn one like...
...first-round lead in the $10.000 Dallas Open. But next day, woozy from sulfa, he slumped to 74. After that he could not catch Sam Snead (lately recovered from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer run he was a good bet to succeed wartime golf's king of the links, fast-greying Byron Nelson, now 18 Ibs. underweight after the nerve-wearing grind of winning 16 tournaments within a year...
...surprising, he and his fellow pros (Nelson finished fourth) lost the $10,000 Memphis Open to an amateur. Unruffled by the fast company, Amateur Fred Haas Jr., a Louisiana insurance salesman, was good on the fairways and even better on the greens. He toured the 72 holes in 18-under-par to become the first amateur winner of a major open tourney since...
...total of 301 strokes, causing a number of people to go home thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July 19), had been consistent but not brilliant. Harrison ("Jimmie") Johnston, the amateur who worried the professionals for half the battle, went to seed after an eagle 3 and a sparrow...