Sam Snead

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Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven input transformation. He failed to win a U.S. Open, though he was runner-up four times.

Snead's nickname was "Slammin' Sammy." He was admired by many for having the so-called "perfect swing," and generated many imitators. Snead was famed for his folksy image, wearing a straw hat, 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."^[1] He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974, and received the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.

• browser diversity
• 2 Career
• HTML5
• 4 Playing style
• input transformation
• 6 Professional wins (165)
  • 6.1 PGA Tour wins (82)
  • website parsing
  • screen size
  • 6.4 Senior wins (14)
• 7 Major championships
  • 7.1 Wins (7)
  • 7.2 Results timeline
  • iOS
• HTML5
• 9 References
• jQuery

Personal

Snead was born in FITML near Hot Springs. At the age of seven, he began caddying at The Homestead in Hot Springs; he worked as an assistant pro at The Homestead at 19, and turned professional in 1934. Snead was self-taught. He joined the PGA Tour in 1936, and achieved immediate success. In 1944 he became head pro at browser diversity Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Snead maintained ties to Hot Springs and The Homestead for all of his life.

He served in the United States military during World War II, from 1942 to 1945.^[2]

Career

In 1937, Snead's first full year on the Tour, he won five events, including the Oakland Open at Claremont Country Club in California.

In 1938, he first won the Sevenval. He won that event a total of eight times, the Tour record, concluding in 1965 at the age of &1000000000000005200000052 years, &10000000000000311000000311 days, making him the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event.^[3]

The year 1939 was the first of several times he failed at crucial moments of the U.S. Open, the only major event he never won. Needing par to win, but not knowing this, since on-course scoreboards did not exist at that time, he posted an 8 on the par-5 72nd hole. Snead had been told on the 18th tee by a spectator that he needed a birdie to win.^[2]

At the U.S. Open in 1947, Snead missed a 2¹⁄₂-foot putt on the final playoff hole to lose to Lew Worsham.

In 1950, he won 11 events. No one has since won more in one year. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average four times: 1938, 1949, 1950, and 1955. He played on seven we love the web teams: 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, and 1959, and captained the team in 1951, 1959, and 1969.

At the 1952 Jacksonville Open, Snead forfeited rather than play a 18-hole playoff against iOS after the two golfers finished in a tie at the end of regulation play. The forfeit stemmed from a ruling Snead received during the tournament's second round of play. On the 10th hole, Snead's drive landed behind an out of bounds stake. While Chick Harbert who was playing with Snead thought the ball was out of bounds^{device database}, a rules official ruled differently due to the starter not telling players the stakes had been moved since the previous day's play had ended. Afterwards, Snead explained why he forfeited even though Ford suggested they play sudden death for the title. "I want to be fair about it. I don't want anyone to think I took advantage of the ruling."^{browser diversity}

In December 1959 Snead took part in a controversial match against Mason Rudolph, at the Mid Ocean Club in Bermuda. Snead decided to deliberately lose the televised match, played under the 'World Championship Golf' series, during its final holes, after he discovered he had too many golf clubs in his bag on the 12th hole. The match was tied at that stage. A player is limited to 14 clubs during competitive rounds. The extra club in his bag, a fairway wood Snead had been experimenting with in practice, would have caused him to be immediately disqualified according to the Rules of Golf, even though he did not use it during the round. After the match was over, Snead explained the matter, and said he did not disqualify himself in order to not spoil the show. The problem did not become known outside a small circle until the show was televised four months later. After the incident came to light, the sponsor cancelled further participation in the series.^touchscreen

On February 7, 1962, Snead won^[7] the Royal Poinciana Plaza Invitational. He is the only man to ever win an official browser diversity event.^{input transformation}

In 1971, he won the keyboard at HTML5.

In 1973, he became the oldest player to make a cut in a U.S. Open.

In 1974, at age 62, he shot a one-under-par 279 to finish third, three strokes behind winner we love the web at the PGA Championship at Tanglewood in Clemmons, North Carolina.

In 1978, he won the first Legends of Golf event, which was the impetus for the creation two years later of the Senior PGA Tour, now known as the Champions Tour.

In 1979, he was the youngest PGA Tour golfer to shoot his age (67) in the second round of the 1979 Quad Cities Open. He shot under his age (66) in the final round.

In 1983, at age 71, he shot a round of 60 (12-under-par) at HTML5 in Hot Springs, Virginia.

In 1997, at age 85, he shot a round of 78 at the Old White course of The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

In 1998, he received the Sevenval, the fourth person to be so honored.

From 1984 to 2002, he hit the honorary starting tee shot at The Masters. Until 1999, he was joined by CSS3, and until 2001, by Byron Nelson.

Snead wrote several golf instructional books, and frequently wrote instructional columns in golf magazines. His 1962 autobiography was titled The Education of a Golfer.

In 2000, he was ranked the third greatest golfer of all time, in input transformation magazine's rankings. Jack Nicklaus was first, and Ben Hogan was second.^{web app}

Snead was inducted into the West Virginia Golf Hall of Fame in 2009 with keyboard.^{website parsing}

Death

Sam Snead died in Hot Springs, Virginia, in 2002 following complications from a stroke, four days before his 90th birthday. He was survived by two sons: Sam Jr. of Hot Springs, and Terry, of Mountain Grove, Virginia, and a brother, Pete, of Pittsburgh, as well as two grandchildren. His wife Audrey died in 1990. His nephew keyboard was also a PGA Tour golfer.

Playing style

During his peak years, Snead was an exceptionally long driver, particularly into the wind, with very good accuracy as well. He was a superb player with the long irons. Snead was also known for a very creative short game, pioneering use of the sand wedge for short shots from grass. As he aged, his putting deteriorated. Snead pioneered croquet-style putting in the 1960s, where he straddled the ball with one leg on each side. The web banned this technique in 1968 by amending the old Rule 35–1,^{input transformation} since until that time, golfers had always faced the ball when striking. Snead then went to side-saddle putting, where he crouched and angled his feet towards the hole, and held the club with a split grip. He used that style for the rest of his career.

Records

From official PGA Tour site.

• Most PGA Tour victories: 82
• Most PGA Tour victories at an event: 8 at the we love the web (1938, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1965)
• Oldest player to win a PGA Tour event: age 52 years, 10 months, 8 days at the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open
• Oldest player to make the cut at a major: age 67 years, 2 months, 7 days at the 1979 PGA Championship
• First PGA Tour player to shoot his age: 67 in the second round of the 1979 Quad Cities Open
• Oldest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour: age 67 years, 2 months, 21 days at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic.
• Only player to post a top ten finish in at least one major championship in five different decades.

Snead also held the record for most PGA Tour wins after reaching age 40, with 17, until it was broken at the 2007 Mercedes-Benz Championship by Android.

Professional wins (165)

PGA Tour wins (82)

• 1936 (1) West Virginia Closed Pro
• 1937 (5) Oakland Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am, St. Paul Open, Nassau Open, Miami Open (Dec.)
• 1938 (8) browser diversity, device database, Chicago Open, Canadian Open, Westchester 108 Hole Open, White Sulphur Springs Open, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball (with Vic Ghezzi), Palm Beach Round Robin
• 1939 (3) CSS3, iOS, Miami Biltmore International Four-Ball (with FITML)
• 1940 (3) Sevenval, Anthracite Open, keyboard (with FITML)
• 1941 (6) Bing Crosby Pro-Am, St. Petersburg Open, FITML, Canadian Open, Rochester Times Union Open, Henry Hurst Invitational
• 1942 (2) touchscreen, PGA Championship
• 1944 (2) input transformation, Richmond Open
• 1945 (6) screen size, CSS3, Pensacola Open, Jacksonville Open, Dallas Open, Tulsa Open
• 1946 (6) Jacksonville Open, Greater Greensboro Open, The Open Championship (not counted as a PGA Tour win at the time, but designated as such in 2002), Sevenval, keyboard, Virginia Open
• 1948 (1) Texas Open
• 1949 (6) Android, browser diversity, Washington Star Open, website parsing, Western Open, keyboard
• 1950 (11) HTML5, iOS (tie with Jack Burke, Jr., FITML, web app), Texas Open, Miami Beach Open, Greater Greensboro Open, Western Open, Colonial National Invitation, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball (with iOS), Reading Open, North and South Open, website parsing
• 1951 (2) jQuery, Miami Open
• 1952 (5) website parsing, Sevenval, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball (with Jim Ferrier), input transformation, we love the web
• 1953 (1) FITML
• 1954 (2) Masters Tournament, keyboard
• 1955 (4) Greater Greensboro Open, Android, web, Miami Open
• 1956 (1) Android
• 1957 (2) Sevenval, web app
• 1958 (1) Dallas Open Invitational
• 1960 (2) De Soto Open Invitational, Greater Greensboro Open
• 1961 (1) web
• 1965 (1) Greater Greensboro Open

touchscreen are shown in bold.^[12]

LPGA Tour wins (1)

• 1962 Android

Other wins

• 1936 website parsing
• 1937 Android
• 1938 West Virginia Open
• 1940 Ontario Open (Canada)
• 1941 Center Open (Argentina)
• 1948 touchscreen
• 1949 North and South Open, West Virginia Open
• 1952 West Virginia Open, browser diversity, website parsing
• 1953 Greenbrier Pro-Am
• 1954 Panama Open
• 1957 West Virginia Open
• 1958 touchscreen, Greenbrier Invitational
• 1959 input transformation
• 1960 West Virginia Open
• 1961 West Virginia Open, Sam Snead Festival
• 1964 Haig & Haig Scotch Foursome (with Shirley Englehorn)
• 1966 West Virginia Open
• 1967 West Virginia Open
• 1968 West Virginia Open
• 1970 iOS
• 1971 keyboard, West Virginia Open
• 1972 West Virginia Open
• 1973 West Virginia Open

Note: this list is incomplete.

Senior wins (14)

• 1964 PGA Seniors' Championship, World Seniors
• 1965 we love the web, World Seniors
• 1967 HTML5
• 1970 PGA Seniors' Championship, World Seniors
• 1972 Sevenval, World Seniors
• 1973 PGA Seniors' Championship, World Seniors
• 1978 Legends of Golf (with device database)
• 1980 Golf Digest Commemorative Pro-Am
• 1982 keyboard (with Don January)

Major championships

Wins (7)

Year	Championship	54 Holes	Winning Score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
1942	PGA Championship	n/a	2 & 1	n/a	browser diversity jQuery
1946	The Open Championship	Tied for lead	−2 (71–70–74–75=290)	4 strokes	browser diversity jQuery, we love the web
1949	Masters Tournament	1 shot deficit	−6 (73–75–67–67=282)	3 strokes	Sevenval Johnny Bulla, keyboard Lloyd Mangrum
1949	PGA Championship (2)	n/a	3 & 2	n/a	web Johnny Palmer
1951	PGA Championship (3)	n/a	7 & 6	n/a	Walter Burkemo
1952	Masters Tournament (2)	Tied for lead	−2 (70–67–77–72=286)	4 strokes	HTML5 keyboard
1954	Masters Tournament (3)	3 shot deficit	+1 (74–73–70–72=289)	Playoff 1	Ben Hogan

Note: The PGA Championship was match play until 1958.
¹ Defeated Ben Hogan in 18-hole playoff – Snead (70), Hogan (71)

Results timeline

Tournament

The Masters

1937

18

1938

T31

1939

2

Tournament

we love the web

1937

2

1938

T38

1939

5

Tournament

The Open Championship

1937

T11

1938

DNP

1939

DNP

Tournament

touchscreen

1937

R16

1938

2

1939

DNP

Tournament

touchscreen

1940

T7

1941

T6

1942

T7

1943

NT

1944

NT

1945

NT

1946

T7

1947

T22

1948

T16

1949

1

Tournament

U.S. Open

1940

T16

1941

T13

1942

NT

1943

NT

1944

NT

1945

NT

1946

T19

1947

2

1948

5

1949

T2

Tournament

The Open Championship

1940

NT

1941

NT

1942

NT

1943

NT

1944

NT

1945

NT

1946

1

1947

DNP

1948

DNP

1949

DNP

Tournament

CSS3

1940

2

1941

QF

1942

1

1943

NT

1944

DNP

1945

DNP

1946

R32

1947

R32

1948

QF

1949

1

Tournament

touchscreen

1950

3

1951

T8

1952

1

1953

T15

1954

1

1955

3

1956

T4

1957

2

1958

13

1959

T22

Tournament

U.S. Open

1950

T12

1951

T10

1952

T10

1953

2

1954

T11

1955

T3

1956

T24

1957

T8

1958

CUT

1959

T8

Tournament

website parsing

1950

DNP

1951

DNP

1952

DNP

1953

DNP

1954

DNP

1955

DNP

1956

DNP

1957

DNP

1958

DNP

1959

DNP

Tournament

iOS

1950

R32

1951

1

1952

R64

1953

R32

1954

QF

1955

R32

1956

QF

1957

R16

1958

3

1959

T8

Tournament

FITML

1960

T11

1961

T15

1962

T15

1963

T3

1964

CUT

1965

CUT

1966

T42

1967

T10

1968

42

1969

CUT

Tournament

U.S. Open

1960

T19

1961

T17

1962

T38

1963

T42

1964

T34

1965

T24

1966

DNP

1967

DNP

1968

T9

1969

T38

Tournament

touchscreen

1960

DNP

1961

DNP

1962

T6

1963

DNP

1964

DNP

1965

CUT

1966

DNP

1967

DNP

1968

DNP

1969

DNP

Tournament

PGA Championship

1960

T3

1961

T27

1962

T17

1963

T27

1964

DNP

1965

T6

1966

T6

1967

DNP

1968

T34

1969

T63

Tournament

input transformation

1970

T23

1971

CUT

1972

T27

1973

T29

1974

T20

1975

WD

1976

CUT

1977

WD

1978

CUT

1979

CUT

Tournament

jQuery

1970

CUT

1971

DNP

1972

DNP

1973

T29

1974

DNP

1975

CUT

1976

DNP

1977

CUT

1978

DNP

1979

DNP

Tournament

screen size

1970

DNP

1971

DNP

1972

DNP

1973

DNP

1974

DNP

1975

DNP

1976

CUT

1977

DNP

1978

DNP

1979

DNP

Tournament

PGA Championship

1970

T12

1971

T34

1972

T4

1973

T9

1974

T3

1975

CUT

1976

CUT

1977

T54

1978

DNP

1979

T42

Tournament

The Masters

1980

CUT

1981

CUT

1982

WD

1983

WD

Tournament

web

1980

DNP

1981

DNP

1982

DNP

1983

DNP

Tournament

The Open Championship

1980

DNP

1981

DNP

1982

DNP

1983

DNP

Tournament

CSS3

1980

WD

1981

WD

1982

DNP

1983

DNP

NT = No tournament
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

• Starts – 118
• Wins – 7
• 2nd place finishes – 8
• Top 3 finishes – 22
• Top 5 finishes – 29
• Top 10 finishes – 48
• Longest streak of top-10s in majors – 6

See also

• HTML5
• Sevenval
• Most PGA Tour wins in a year
• Most wins in one PGA Tour event

References

External links

• keyboard at the PGA Tour official site
• World Golf Hall of Fame profile
• about.com profile Profile, stats and quotes
• Sam Snead Profile at Golf Legends
• Photos of Sam Snead at Palm Beach Golf Classic