tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17206449.post3642346762671419109..comments2023-11-02T04:49:29.053-04:00Comments on ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG: The Greatest Golfer to Never Win a U.S. OpenThe Armchair Golferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086916747302169325noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17206449.post-54251662258514575392009-07-06T09:55:24.639-04:002009-07-06T09:55:24.639-04:00Somehow Neil he could not transfer his voracious a...Somehow Neil he could not transfer his voracious appetite for winning tournaments on the PGA Tour to the Majors. He managed to win his first major only after he had 27 tour victories to his credit. But if at the end of the career a professional golfer has 7 Major wins to his credit then he will go down in the annals of history as one of the better exponents of the golfing art. The only blot, if you may so, was that he never managed to win the U.S. Open. He later on went to write in his autobiography “whether it was some kind of a jinx or whatever, it seemed that whenever the USGA flag went up at the Open, so did my score”.<br /> <br /> <br />A tribute to the remarkable spirit of this great athlete was the fact that he played the game actively even when he was more than 70 years old. While last year everyone was been talking about Greg Norman’s remarkable third place finish as a 52 year old at the 2008 Open Championship, Sam Snead had in fact got a third place finish to his credit at the 1974 PGA Championship as a 62 year old. The eventual winner that year was Lee Trevino but he just finished three strokes behind. He attributed his remarkable athleticism even at an old age to his squirrel hunting days in his childhood in Ashwood.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />AndyAndy at HomeofGolf.TVhttp://www.homeofgolf.tvnoreply@blogger.com