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...names were there, straining to put a final touch of polish on their games. Ed Furgol, who manages to break par despite a withered left arm, had been drilling over the course for a month. Jimmy ("Smiles") Demaret, the best wind-shot in the business, and slim Lloyd ("Mustache") Mangrum haunted the practice rounds along with some 120 others. Besides high-compression temperament and a steely command of the emotions, it had taken hard work to get to the top of the tournament business and it was taking hard work to keep them there. With most of them golf...
...into the water to play it. At the 17th (similar to the famous 14th at Scotland's St. Andrews), his drive hit a tree and caromed off into a roadway. But Claude recovered, made one over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens, and dropped behind. Playing those greens was like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the tenth step. They were slick, big (sometimes calling for 100-ft. putts) and agonizingly full of dips, bumps and slopes...
...course, and then to spectacular Pebble Beach for the final 18. On the first tee, a kid yelled, "Betcha a quarter," as Bing began his backswing. Without pausing, Bing yelled back, "A quarter what?" and drove the ball out 230 yards. Among the pros, the pacesetter was slender Lloyd Mangrum, with Hogan and Bobby Locke dangerously close...
...Pebble Beach, the hole that players feared most and the crowd most enjoyed was No. 8. It is a 425-yd. dogleg running around the edge of a steep cliff, with hazards to the right & left, and about 135 yards of salt water to go over. Lloyd Mangrum, playing the kind of golf that made him 1946's U.S. Open Champion, got his par. His final score for the 54 holes: 205, ten under par. Said Mangrum, collecting the $2,000 first prize:* "This is my week off. I'm playing here...
...Lloyd Mangrum, who had never won a major tournament, loses every time he plays until next June, he will still be the U.S. golf champion...