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	Sam Snead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was one of the top golfers in the world for most of 4 decades.
		Snead was famed for his folksy image, wearing a straw hat and playing tournaments barefoot, and making such statements as "Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt." His nickname was "Slammin' Sammy."
		Snead was referenced in several jokes in the Peanuts comic strip in the 1950s and 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Snead (569 words)

	Sam Snead (1912-2002)
		Snead was raised during the Depression in the backwoods of western Virginia.
		Snead was the only player who won sanctioned tournaments in 6 decades, from the 1936 West Virginia Closed Pro to the 1982 Legends of Golf, which he won with Don January as his partner.
		Snead's son said he was recovering from stroke-like symptoms, and for the first time, he needed someone else to tee up the ball at the Masters.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /memorial/golf/snead (1100 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI Online - SI Flashback: American Original - Thursday May 23, 2002 06:52 PM
		Sam Snead -- he of the palmetto hat and the seamless, enduring swing -- had helped put their local tournament on the map by winning it a record seven times.
		Snead won his first noteworthy titles in the summer of '36, including the West Virginia Open and the West Virginia PGA, and was befriended by Henry Picard and Craig Wood, two of the better touring pros of the era.
		Snead soon got a reputation, which has followed him throughout his life, as a premier hustler, always on the lookout for a $500 Nassau, which was a pretty good hunk of change in the '30s and '40s.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /si_online/news/2002/05/23/american_original (1949 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Sam Snead
		Sam Snead, who has died at Hot Springs, Virginia, aged 89, was one of the greatest players in the history of golf, and with Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson part of the triumvirate that dominated the game from the late 1930s through to the era of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.
		Snead himself, a countryman who did not go in for flowery prose, took a practical view: "Ah jes' takes tha club back nice and lazy and then ah try to whop it down on the barrelhead." It did not look like that.
		Sam grew up wild, sharpening the accuracy of his eye by shooting squirrels, and developing the rhythm of his swing by practising with a crooked stick and a stone.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2002/05/25/db2501.xml (1411 words)

	Boston.com / Latest News / Sports
		Sam Snead, the golfing great known as "Slammin' Sam" who used the sweetest swing in the game to win seven major championships and a record 81 PGA Tour events, died Thursday at age 89.
		Snead was ageless, the only player who won sanctioned tournaments in six decades, from the 1936 West Virginia Closed Pro to the 1982 Legends of Golf, which he won with Gardner Dickinson as his partner.
		Snead's son said he was recovering from strokelike symptoms, and for the first time, he needed someone else to tee up the ball at the Masters.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/23/snead.htm (1131 words)

	ESPN.com: Only old age could stop Snead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Snead was born on May 27, 1912, in the rural mountains of Hot Springs, Va. He grew up in a poor farming family, hunting and fishing and dreaming of becoming a football star.
		Snead, Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan -- all born the same year -- formed the era's Big Three of golf, but it was Snead's style and accessibility that catapulted the pro circuit.
		Snead never participated in the British Open until 1946 when he was forced to play at St. Andrews because of contractual ties to a sponsor.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00016478.html (1306 words)

	Sam Snead
		Snead was born on May 27, 1912 in the western Virginia town of Ashwood.
		Sam would eventually take a job caddying at The Homestead Hotel Golf Course in the rural town of Hot Springs, a facility which played host to AJGA events as recently as the summer of 2003.
		To many young golfers, Sam Snead was known only as one of the three Hall of Famers who participated annually in the honorary first pairing at The Masters, knocking a tee shot down the middle of the No. 1 fairway for old times sake, along with the likes of Byron Nelson and Gene Sarazen.
	www.ajga.org /Newsletter/TheAJGALink/10-8-04/WGHOF.asp (389 words)

	GolfDigest.com - Searching for Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The spike marks Sam Snead planted atop the seven-foot doorways in the Augusta National clubhouse are visible and permanent.
		The pet bass Snead kept in the pond on his farm, the one that allowed Sam to tickle its belly and lift it from the water, is gone -- but friends saw the two frolic together.
		Sam's wife, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great grandparents and a great-great uncle are interred there for certain, and the family believes slaves from the early 1800s are buried there, as well.
	www.golfdigest.com /features/index.ssf?/features/gd200208sneadtribute.html (1038 words)

	ESPN Classic - 'Slammin' Sam' won 81 PGA Tour events
		Snead, one of golf's greatest players with seven major championship, a record 81 victories on the PGA Tour and an ageless game that produced titles in six decades, died May 23.
		Snead was the only player who won sanctioned tournaments in six decades, from the 1936 West Virginia Closed Pro to the 1982 Legends of Golf, which he won with Don January as his partner.
		Snead beat him with a par, and was duly impressed, talking about Woods and his favorite subject -- the swing -- years later.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2002/0523/1386175.html (1515 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| golf \| news Golfing great Sam Snead dies
		Sam Snead, the PGA Tour's all-time leader with 81 victories and owner of the "sweetest swing in golf", died on Thursday following complications from a stroke, the US Golf Association announced.
		Snead claimed his eighth Greensboro title in 1965, when he was 52 years, 10 months and eight days old, making him the oldest winner in tour history.
		Snead also is the oldest player to make a cut, doing so at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic, when he was 67 years, two months and 21 days.
	sport.iafrica.com /golf/news/958160.htm (511 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sweet-swinging Sam Snead dead at 89 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Snead won a record 81 tournaments on the PGA Tour and was a rare player to be competitive into his senior years.
		Snead won three Masters titles and was the first to be awarded a green jacket, which has become a tournament tradition.
		Snead beat him with a par, and was duly impressed, talking about Woods and his favorite subject — the swing — years later.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/golf/_stories/2002-05-23-snead-obit.htm (1983 words)

	GolfDigest.com - The ride of Sam Snead's life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sam finally drifts off to sleep, and when Jack realizes he can talk without his father hearing, he explains why this living legend, now 86 years old, is so anxious about a trip he had taken so many times before.
		Sam is embraced everywhere he goes, but at the Masters he is patted and hugged nonstop by old friends and rivals, slack-jawed players, awed reporters and twittering, green-blazered club members.
		As for Sam, there always was a lot of ham in him, and with a broad grin he plucks the tee from the ground, doffs his hat, skips a few steps and kicks his right foot in the air.
	www.golfdigest.com /majors/masters/index.ssf?/majors/masters/199904yocom.html (4231 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Golf \| 'The Slammer' Sam Snead
		The son of a poor backwoods farmer, Snead enjoyed an idyllic childhood in the Virginia mountains, hunting, fishing and occasionally caddying at the local hotel to supplement his family's income.
		Snead took to facing the hole with his feet together and putting from the side.
		In a justifiably prodigious career, Sam Snead's natural swing was the source of wonder, envy and inspiration for the big hitters of today.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/golf/1656318.stm (620 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: The Sam Snead Classic? Why, the Man's a Classic
		All of this is being noted because Sam Snead is a Washington visitor this week, to preside on Tuesday at the Sam Snead Classic at Bowie Golf and Country Club, a hospice charity affair sponsored by the Mark Vogel company.
		Snead is not quite the slender lad who came out of the Virginia hills to captivate the golf world with the silken swing that seemed to defy dysfunction and was the envy of his peers and everybody else.
		Also, that day at Congressional when Snead is qualifying for the U.S. Open, no sweat, but one of his drives lands in the matted rough with the kind of nasty lie that would cause any golfer to brood about the fates.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/snead.htm (1003 words)

	Triad Golf Today: Sam Snead
		Snead was full of beans when we played, because age has not tempered his ability to give somebody the business.
		But Snead said he was just kidding, and was happy to tell stories all the way round and not bother with a wager.
		Snead spoke of the comment one often hears that Ben Hogan was so accurate that during a 36-hole day he had to play his shots in the afternoon round from his divots in the morning round.
	www.triadgolf.com /may97/snead1.htm (1278 words)

	Sam Snead Products & Sam Snead Resources
		Sam Snead won 82 PGA Tour events, more than anyone else, and he did it with a remarkably fluid and graceful swing.
		Snead was an extremely gifted athlete, so gifted that even into his 70s he could still kick the top of a door frame.
		Sam Snead was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
	www.golfprecinct.com /Sam_Snead_Products_Sam_Snead_Resources_s/98.htm (482 words)

	The Anniston Star - Sam Snead dies at age 89
		Snead was ageless, the only player who won sanctioned tournaments in six decades, from the 1936 West Virginia Closed Pro to the 1982 Legends of Golf, which he won with Don January as his partner.
		Snead beat him with a par, and was duly impressed, talking about Woods and his favorite subject - the swing - years later.
		In perhaps his most impressive feat, Snead became the first player on the PGA Tour to shoot his age - a 67 at age 67 - in the second round of the Quad Cities Open in 1979.
	www.annistonstar.com /sports/2002/as-golf-0524-0-2e24a5042.htm (1419 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Golf \| Golf legend Snead dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sam Snead, the PGA Tour's all-time leader with 81 victories, has died aged 89 following complications from a stroke.
		Snead was famous for his straw hat, keen sense of humour and elegant swing.
		Snead was born on 27 May 1912 in Hot Springs and raised during the Depression.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/golf/newsid_2005000/2005573.stm (443 words)

	Sam Snead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sam got his start in golf helping to make golf clubs in the pro shop at The Homestead, the world-class resort nestled in a beautiful valley between two ridges of the Blue Ridge-Appalachian range of hills.
		It’s interesting that Sam himself was not much of a drinker, but he made up for that with his natural flair for entertaining the customers.
		Reporting on Sam Snead’s death, USA Today chose two quotes to best describe this man, Tom Watson once described Snead’s fluid swing as “oily.” But the best quote was from John Schlee, who watched Snead hit practice balls.
	www.golftodaymagazine.com /0506Jun/samsnead.htm (1052 words)

	THE HOMESTEAD HONORS GOLF LEGEND SAM SNEAD WITH MEMORIAL AT FAMED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sam Snead was born in 1912 in the small resort town of Hot Springs, Virginia.
		Sam Snead has always been closely associated with The Homestead’s renowned Cascades Course, which he considered to be one of the finest and most challenging in the world.
		Perhaps even more importantly, Sam’s life was tied to the mountains and valleys and the friends and the family that made Hot Springs home.
	www.thehomestead.com /welcome/press_releases/x35_sam_snead_61.asp (679 words)

	JS Online: Golfer Sam Snead Memorialized
		Sam Snead was remembered Sunday for all that and more: the country kid who learned the game with drivers carved from maples, the barefoot caddie and the kindhearted legend who never forgot his roots.
		Snead taught himself his swing, starting with clubs he fashioned from used buggy whips and discarded iron heads and a driver he and his father carved from the root and trunk of a swamp maple tree.
		Snead's first victory came in 1936; his last in 1982 at the Legends of Golf, and he won 14 more events on the Senior PGA Tour.
	www.jsonline.com /golfplus/ap/may02/ap-glf-snead's-fun052702.asp (777 words)

	Sam-Snead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Snead did not really care for the nickname, he said "the sportswriters started calling me "Slammin' Sam" in the late 1930s.
		I really preferred the nickname I got when I first joined the tour: "Swingin' Sam." That was the name that showed off my true strengths: smoothness and rhythm.
		(Sam Snead, to Ted Williams, arguing which was more difficult, to hit a moving baseball or a stationary golf ball)
	www.golf-topics-tips.com /samsnead.html (408 words)

	JS Online: Golf Great Sam Snead Remembered
		Snead, known for a sweet swing that produced a record 81 victories on the PGA Tour, died Thursday.
		Snead taught himself golf, starting out with clubs he fashioned from used buggy whips and discarded iron heads, and a driver that he and his father carved from the root and trunk of a swamp maple tree.
		Snead's first victory came in 1936; his last in the 1982, at the Legends of Golf, when he teamed with Don January.
	www.jsonline.com /golfplus/ap/may02/ap-glf-snead's-fun052602.asp (784 words)

	GolfTheMidAtlantic.com [Poplar Grove Golf Club — Knowing Sam Snead’s Mind, Then Building A Golf Course]
		The elder Snead actually took part in the design of Poplar Grove as well, though he grew ill before he was able to finalize the work that bears his signature (he made four visits to the property before he passed on).
		The par five 6th hole was one of Sam Snead's favorites, where you can definitely go for the green in two if you can place the ball to the right side of the dogleg off the tee.
		Snead’s entire philosophy was centered on the second or approach shot, because that’s where the best players will show what they can do — the ‘scoring’ shots.
	www.golfthemidatlantic.com /story/262 (2390 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Golf \| Golf world pays tribute to Snead
		Past and present stars of the golf world have paid their tributes to Sam Snead, who has died at the age of 89.
		Snead was the honorary starter at Augusta since 1983, including this year shortly after he suffered a mild stroke.
		Byron Nelson was a contemporary of Snead's and winner of five Majors between 1937 and 1945.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/golf/2005595.stm (345 words)

	Sam Snead -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Snead was noted for the longevity of his career, his agility, and his smooth, self-taught swing.
		Snead was renowned for his elegant yet powerful swing; he was the first golfer regularly to drive a ball some 250 m (270 yd).
		Born in Monahans, Tex., she won three Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) championships (1967, 1971, 1975) and was the leading LPGA winner from 1965 to 1968 and from 1970 to 1973.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068366?tocId=9068366&query=sam (652 words)

	bet on Sam Snead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		Sam Snead is credited by most golf world as began one of the the talented Sam Snead, in his later years on the tour, being to suffer from "the yips"
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