Remember…Snead’s Open up Championship By ED TRAVIS Sam Snead experienced a...

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Remember…Snead’s Open up Championship
By ED TRAVIS
Sam Snead experienced a...
Remember…Snead’s Open up Championship By ED TRAVIS Sam Snead experienced a famous profession. With eighty two wins on the PGA Tour, nonetheless not equaled by Tiger Woods, and with the Open up Championship becoming performed subsequent 7 days at Royal Liverpool it brings to thoughts Snead’s Open up document “across the pond.” Instantly following the finish of Globe War II Wilson Sporting Items, his longtime sponsor, pressed Snead to travel to Fantastic Britain to market their golf equipment and balls as golfing became reestablished subsequent 6 many years of war. Snead experienced performed in the Open up as soon as prior to, in 1937, and was not particularly enthusiastic about returning but maybe the reality the location was the Previous Program at St. Andrews assisted make up his thoughts to go. As Snead associated the tale, he and Lawson Small experienced to trip from London to St. Andrews, Scotland in a cramped small rail carriage and saw what he known as a patch of weeds and rocks. As the teach slowed and then stopped Snead asked a gentleman sharing the compartment, “You from about right here? Can you inform me what they contact that? Appears like an previous deserted golfing program.” The scornful reply from the staid English gentleman put the American in his location. “My great sir, that is the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews. It is not now, nor will it at any time be, deserted.” Slammin’ Sammy apologized profusely but unsuccessful to mollify his fellow passenger who turned out to be a titled member of royalty. Snead could not keep in mind for certain but it was “Duke Something” and the Duke was not bashful telling newsmen on the scene the whole disgraceful—in his eyes—story. The British newspapers took Snead to the cleaners which was not some thing carried out with the exact same depth in the United States at the time so the “Hillbilly Pro” experienced a difficult time the whole 7 days. But Snead was in a position to get his revenge for the unfriendly therapy by followers and the press…he won the 1946 Open up Championship by 4 shots and even although he received the initial location verify, a paltry $600, he did not go back to protect in 1947.