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Veteran Pro Golfer Lloyd Mangrum...
...SPORT) gave off a loud pooh-pooh. All the talk about Ben Hogan being the world's greatest golfer "makes me a little sick," Mangrum said. He knew "half a dozen" pros who would "do just as well as Hogan if they could afford to pick their spots." He didn't want to "knock" Ben. but "it's a little ridiculous, all this notoriety." Said Hogan: "I don't answer things like that...
...Augusta National Golf Course, with its carpet-smooth greens, lush fairways and pitfall traps, was in fine shape for the Masters golf tournament. So were the Masters. The day before the tournament started, Lloyd Mangrum, golf's leading moneywinner, broke his own course record with a sensational 63, nine strokes under par. Defending Champion Sam Snead, who took the title away from Ben Hogan, fired a fine 71. U.S. Open Champion Julius Boros, who took that title away from Hogan in 1952, was at the peak of his game with...
...sorts of trouble; he was in the water on No. 15, in bunkers on Nos. 17 and 18. Each error cost him a stroke, yet he wound up with a sub-par 70 in a tie for third place-one stroke up on Snead, three on Boros, four on Mangrum. A second-round 69 put Hogan in the lead...
...Phoenix, Golfer Lloyd Mangrum, hottest of the winter-circuit campaigners (TIME, Jan. 26), scored his third victory in five 1953 tournaments, picked up another $2,000 in prize money...