Slammin' Sammy Holds On

Lost amid all the hoopla over whether Tiger Woods will break Jack's record of 18 major golf tournament victories is the potential futility Tiger may experience chasing another amazing career record.  Slammin’ Sammy Snead owns the record for total PGA victories with 82. Tiger is sitting right behind him at 79, having passed Jack Nicklaus’s  total of 73 PGA victories in 2012.  Snead is one of the top 5 all-time golfing greats.  Among his many records is the fact that Snead is the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event: age 52 years, 10 months, 8 days at the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open, a tournament he won eight times.  Amazingly athletic, Snead was proud of the fact that he could leap from a standstill to kick the top of a seven-foot door.  Not only is catching the Golden Bear becoming less likely with each passing tournament, Woods’ catching Snead has now become less likely as well.  

And never concede a putt

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