Word: baltusrol
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...couple of days the toughest competitor in the National Open championship at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club seemed to be the course itself: its dipped and rolling greens, its narrow dogleg fairways, its devilish rough. Patient and unforgiving, it took on the nation's best golfers...
Anyone at Baltusrol could have told Ed what was wrong with his game. But it was 25 years too late to be helpful. As a kid on a Utica, N.Y. playground, he had broken his left arm. It never mended properly. Now it was permanently crooked and withered. To balance his swing, Furgol had learned to keep his right arm bent. Even so, he was outhitting some of the best at Baltusrol. And he was playing steady, accurate golf. Not until the 18th hole of the last round was he in real trouble. Then he hooked his drive deep into...
...catch him. No one else was close. But Littler needed a birdie 4 on the 18th for a tie. He missed an eight-foot putt, and Ed Furgol was the new champion. For sad Sam Snead it was small consolation to remember that before the tournament he had judged Baltusrol correctly. The winner, he had said, would card 284-just four over...
When he was remodeling the 4th at Baltusrol (top, opposite page), Jones put so much new character into the hole that club members objected. Now the hole was far too tough, they said. Politely, Jones disagreed. Next time he played a round with the chairman of the construction committee and the club pro, Jones stepped to the 4th tee, walloped an iron shot to the green, and watched it drop into the cup on the first bounce...
...Ponte Vedra Links, Fla.* No. 5, Baltusrol's 4th.* 6, the 16th at the National Links, Southampton...