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GOLF PLUS

Grand Sam

Posted: Wed March 25, 1998

Samuel Jackson Snead calls Senior golf "the best thing ever." Pausing for reflection at last week's Legends of Golf, the 85-year-old Snead said, "In 1950 I won 11 times and didn't make $50,000. Last year Hale Irwin won nine tournaments and $2 million. And look how many players have jets on this tour. I won more than any of 'em, and I couldn't buy a tire." He recalled a day 20 years ago when he and Bob Goalby were lobbying PGA Tour officers to support a Senior circuit: "Jack Nicklaus said, 'They're not going to let you old farts play.' Goalby said, 'Jack, people don't know the flatbellies out there now, but they'll come out to see us.'"

The sweetest swing Snead sees today belongs to Tiger Woods, who "uses his body more than any of them. He gets that body turning and revs the club head way up to 120, 130," says Snead, who was Tiger's age in 1934.

Issue date: March 30, 1998

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