Word: fairways
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...with that hurdle past, there was no stopping little Ben Hogan in the playoff. Rifling his drives squarely down the fairway, clicking off his approach shots with deadly precision, he held a one-stroke lead over Mangrum at the 16th, three strokes better than Fazio. On the 16th green, Mangrum picked up his ball to blow off a crawling insect. The penalty for violation of the rules cost him two strokes and his last chance to stay in the running. Hogan curled in a clinching 50-foot putt for a birdie on the 17th, wound up with another 69, four...
...championship matches are far away; right now, the Crimson will settle for some decent playing weather and an opportunity to blast the ball down the fairway, let the chips fall where they...
...toss, stepped up to the ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
...could not play if pictures were snapped while he swung. As he prepared to hit his first competitive shot in a year an amateur movie camera began whirring on the clubhouse steps. Ben frowned, and a shout silenced the camera. Then Ben Hogan sent the ball screaming down the fairway...