Word: vicenzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rude," "uncharitable," "vulgar," cried Italian editorialists. Four Italian war veterans' associations demanded government "action" against Monty. Vicenzo Caputo, president of the Italian Nationalist Association, vainly challenged Monty to a duel, and an old-line monarchist demanded that the duffle coats known in Italy as "Montgomerys" be banned. One Italian newspaper recalled Ernest Hemingway's definition of a really dry martini-15 to 1 -called a Montgomery because those were the battle odds Monty demanded...
...pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
...first round of the Palm Beach Round Robin tournament at Westchester's Wykagyl Country Club, he turned in a three-under-par 69, trailed Bobby Locke's leading 68 by four points under the man-for-man scoring system in each foursome. De Vicenzo soon got the hang of the point scoring, banged out a 68 on the second round and took the lead. He followed with another sparkling 68, and all but won the tournament before it was officially over with a 67 on his fourth round...
...golfer who is willing to take big chances for big money (first prize: $3,000). On the 509-yd. sixth hole his woods put him well over the green with his second shot. From the downslope back of a bunker, instead of playing safe for par, De Vicenzo shot boldly for the pin, missed it by 18 inches, but sank the short putt for his birdie. Grinned Roberto: "Excuse my English. My best shot was at this sixth today. I never play one better...
Going into the final round 19 points ahead of Jim Ferrier, De Vicenzo breezed through to an easy victory in spite of a final-round 75, finished up with a total 347-13 strokes under par and twelve points ahead of Runner-Up Ferrier. This week, as the U.S. Open gets under way at Birmingham, Mich., South Africa's Bobby Locke, Australian Jim Ferrier and the newcomer from the Argentine seemed to be the players with the best chance to upset the Sneads and the Hogans. If one "of them wins, it will be the first time that...