Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother Charles as Regent and advised Leopold not to come back. Last week Charles was signing documents which began: "I, Charles, Regent of Belgium because the King is unable to function due to enemy action . . ." Unhampered by enemy action, Leopold was in Paris for a few days of tournament golf...
...ripe age for big-league golf, Samuel Jackson Snead was burning up the courses like a Virginia grass fire. He shot hard and accurate golf to win the Masters Tournament in April, and he was red-hot last week as he stroked his way to the P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week...
After beating Johnny Palmer (3 and 2) in the P.G.A. final last week, Sam was hugely enjoying his new eminence as current king of the links. The car bringing him to the Celebrities Tournament at Washington's Army-Navy Country Club was duly escorted by motorcycle cops. As he changed into working clothes (electric blue slacks and yellow T-shirt), a fellow competitor, General Omar Bradley, came over to shake hands. "I've been reading a lot about you," grinned the general...
...never smoothed off all his hillbilly edges, wriggled with shyness, protesting: "Aw, naw, general. But I've been reading a lot about you." After posting a 131 in the Celebrities Tournament, Sam struck out for Chicago...
There the established stars and the survivors of 1,302 lesser golfers who spent last week qualifying* would fight it out in the U.S. Open, the tournament Sam Snead called "the daddy of them all." Whatever happened (in two other years he had fallen apart on the greens after having the big prize within his grasp), Sam was certain of one thing: Stan Curtis would never get that putter back...