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Wilson picks up his novelist hero, Bernard Sands, at a moment of pride and triumph preceding a fall. Sands, a Grand Old Man of Letters at 57, has just wangled government support for a young writers' colony at Vardon Hall, a country estate. This simple fact wins him many enemies. The local gentry are snobby about Vardon Hall's comedown and sniffy about the artist types soon to take it over. The leader of the opposition is a huge "obscene parrot" of a woman named Ma Curry, who wanted to turn Vardon Hall into a hotel...
Everybody agreed that picking Francis Ouimet (pronounced we met) for this rare honor was a happy choice and a nice gesture. Ouimet has been a name in transatlantic golf ever since the day in 1913 when, as a 20-year-old, he whipped Britain's peerless pair, Harry Vardon (by five strokes) and Ted Ray (by six), in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. Since then, as a player or the non-playing captain of every U.S. Walker Cup team until 1949, Ouimet has won an unequaled place in the hearts of R. & A. members, surpassing even Bobby...
...Chicago, Golfer Sam Snead, for the second straight year, to become 1950's leading money winner (a record $35,758), and to take the Vardon Trophy for the lowest average-round score (69.23 strokes...
...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...