His relaxed attitude toward the game translated into his swing. Fred Couples shares the same on-course persona as Snead did. Both are relaxed guys with fluid swings. Jack Nicklaus called his swing “the most fluid motion ever to grace a golf course.”<\/p>\n
\nPeople always said I had a natural swing. They thought I wasn’t a hard worker. But when I was young, I’d play and practice all day, then practice more at night by my car’s headlights. My hands bled. Nobody worked harder at golf than I did.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Hole Two<\/strong>
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He routinely shot at or under his age. Snead shot a 67 at age 67 and a 66 in the final round at the Quad Cities Open in 1979. He shot a 60 at his home course, The Homestead in Hot Springs in 1983 at age 71. In 1997, at age 85, he shot a 78 at the Old White course on The Greenbrier in West Virginia.<\/p>\nHole Three<\/strong>
\nSnead’s nickname was “Slammin’ Sam” or simply “Slammer” for his ability to hit the ball a long way.<\/p>\n\nThe sportswriters started calling me “Slammin’ Sam” in the late 1930s. I never liked it very much. 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. Somehow people liked “Slammin’ Sam” better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Hole Four<\/strong>
\nSnead won a total of 82 PGA Tour victories, a record that stands today. He won in the neighborhood of 160 tournaments in total. The only guy that looks like he can catch Snead, Tiger Woods, is busy chasing Nicklaus’ major championship record and he may surpass Snead’s total wins in the process.<\/p>\nHole Five<\/strong>
\nSlammin’ Sammy has seven majors to his credit. He has three Masters (1949, 1952, 1954), one British Open (1946), and three PGA Championships (1942, 1949, 1951). He never won the U.S. Open, a fact which was difficult for Snead to swallow.<\/p>\n\nIt goes without saying that my biggest disappointment was never winning the U.S. Open. I’m reminded of it all the time. It hurts when people remember you for the things you didn’t do, rather than for the things you did do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Hole Six<\/strong>
\nSam Snead was a member of seven Ryder Cup teams and the captain of three. His playing record was 10-2-1.<\/p>\nHole Seven<\/strong>
\nSnead was very athletic and flexible; so flexible that he apparently could kick the top of a door frame into his 70s. Yowza!<\/p>\nHole Eight<\/strong>
\nSnead won five times his first year on Tour and eight times his second year. He won the money title his second year.<\/p>\nHole Nine<\/strong>
\nWith eight wins at the Greater Greensboro Open Snead has the most wins at a single event. He won the event in 1965 at age 52, making him the oldest winner on the PGA Tour. He first won the event in 1938.<\/p>\nPhoto Credits: © Unknown, BBC<\/a>, © USA Today<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With perhaps the most enviable swing in the history of the game, Sam Snead captured the attention of the golfing world for more years than any player before him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profiles"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Sam Snead is a legend on the PGA Tour. Rightfully so. He had as much longevity in the game as anyone ever has and he has the win count to prove it. “Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease,” said Snead. He left an amazing record of action.<\/p>\n