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Snead could also recall an unhappy time. Just last year, when he was leading at the fourth and final round, he shot a disastrous eight (on No. 11), and folded, with an 80, thoroughly out of the running. On that occasion, cool Ben Hogan, who could remember losing the 1946 Masters when he three-putted the final green, came from behind to win with a four-under-par 68. Last week, after the second round, it seemed the same story all over again, with two old masters out in front of the younger aspirants. It was front-running Snead...
Both shot 70s on the first round. Hogan, playing his usual deliberate, calculating game, added another 70. Snead, more flamboyant and erratic, shot a dazzling 67, for a three-stroke lead. Sharpshooting Sam, not forgetting the usual Hogan hex, was nevertheless bubbling: "I'm riding a hunch that's almost infallible. Almost every time I play the short holes in par, or better, I win. And I'm three under par right now. I've had four deuces, three threes and a four...
...miracle enough that Hogan ever came back to tournament golf. But it was stranger still that he came back a more polished performer than before. He had his old game plus a new frame of mind. Winning tournaments did not seem so important any more, and were therefore easier to win. But it took guts to do it on legs that ached while he was on the fairway and hurt even worse at night. They had never ached so badly as one day in Philadelphia in June 1950. He stumbled into his hotel room and sank into a chair. That...
...HOGAN is not likely to worry about where his next meal is coming from for some time. A good businessman, he has money coming in from tournaments and exhibitions. Over & above that, he collects an annual levy from the Greyhound Bus Corp. (an estimated $25,000 a year for ten years) as a result of his accident...
...interest in the new $2,000,000 ranch-type Western Hills Hotel near Fort Worth, and next winter he will run the posh new Tamarisk Country Club at Palm Springs, Calif., where he is building a home overlooking the third tee. Other golfers find themselves dreaming of the day Hogan will find a nice green pasture for himself. It seems to be their only hope of getting a real shot at one of the pig tournaments. Like a mulligan stew, Ben Hogan just seems to get better & better the longer he simmers...