Well before the teenager tacked one golf legend’s achievements on his bedroom wall for inspiration—a newspaper-clipping timeline of Jack Nicklaus’ milestones—the child took a 75-mile trip from his ...

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"Slammin' Sam" Snead could hit the ball a country mile with a swing that was the sweetest in golf. "It was a gift, something you can't teach," two-time U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange said. "His ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)-- Sam Snead gambled with the "graveyard of the Masters," the tortuous thirteenth hole, and beat Ben Hogan by a stroke in an 18-hole playoff for the Masters golf title Monday. Snead ...

J.C. Snead, an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and ’80s and four-time winner on PGA Tour Champions, died April 25 from complications with cancer in Hot Springs, Va. The nephew of World ...

Sam Snead still holds the record for most career PGA tournament wins. For years he was alone at the top with 82 but now shares the crown with Tiger Woods. His 82 victories included three Masters, one ...

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 died at ...

Images of 82-time PGA Tour winner and World Golf Hall of Fame member Sam Snead. Portrait of American golfer Sam Snead (1912 - 2002) smiling with a golf club at the Metropolitan Open golf tournament in ...

Phil Mickelson will try again this week at Pebble Beach for that elusive United States Open title, which would give him the Career Grand Slam. His near misses, including Pinehurst in 1999, Winged Foot ...