Word: vardon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Open and U.S. Amateur). In 1948, Hogan became the first golfer ever to win the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. championship and the Western Open in the same year. He was also golf's top official money winner (with $32,112 in prizes), and he was winner of the Vardon Trophy with an average of 69.3 strokes for every 18 holes in tournament competition...
...mere 137 Ibs., is golf's little wonder. Since the middle of May, he has played in a dozen tournaments, winning nine of them (including the lustrous U.S. Open and the P.G.A.). His average of 69.31 strokes for 76 rounds makes him the likely winner of the Vardon Trophy. He is also the P.G.A.'s top moneymaker, with $32,112 in official prizes. Last week, the P.G.A. announced that radio and press writers, with hardly a moment's hesitation, had voted Hogan "golfer-of-the-year...
...weather-beaten, tweedy fellow, he could pass for 40), until he pulled out his press clippings. Sure enough, in 1935 he was the 17-year-old boy wonder who won the South African Open. His playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist of the wrist, old fellow...
Last week, when some 200 of America's career golfers holed out for 1941, little Ben was awarded the Harry Vardon Trophy (which goes to the most consistent winner of the year) for the second year in a row. His tournament winnings for 1941 totaled $18,358, approximately $1,000 short of the all-time record set by Sam Snead three years ago. In 1941 Snead finished second ($12,848), Byron Nelson third...
Rawboned Byron Nelson of Fort Worth won the U. S. Open, Western Open, North-South Open, Massachusetts Open, Phoenix Open, never finished out of the money in any golf tournament he entered in 1939. Last week Texan Nelson received the Harry Vardon Trophy, awarded annually (on a stroke basis) to the No. 1 professional golfer of the year. In 24 tournaments (75 18-hole rounds) he averaged 70.84 strokes per round...