"No one ever wins the Open," said four-time Winner Robert Tyre Jones as he looked back on his long career. "Someone is always losing it." Some old standbys were already losing it when the syth National Open golf tournament had barely begun. Bantam Ben Hogan, bent on winning for the fifth time, lost out before he got to the first tee at Toledo's Inverness Club; his back and chest had him in too much pain to swing. Veteran Tommy Bolt sprayed his shots so badly that he quit after only four holes of the...
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