To the rabbit’s hole we go, searching wildly for details and sidelights, anything to add substance to the stories that most catch our fancy this time of the golf year.
Masters stories.
We can’t get enough of them. Even those that happened 88 Aprils ago and would seemingly be so well chronicled that we needn’t check the archives … well, they are the ones that still produce much entertainment.
Take the legendary 1935 Masters, for instance. It is cemented in the record books that Gene Sarazen stood in the 15th fairway trailing by three to Craig Wood, who had completed his 72 holes. We trust you know the story – that Sarazen, with Walter Hagen as a playing competitor and Bobby Jones watching with the patrons, miraculously holed a 235-yard 4-wood shot for “double eagle” to tie Wood, and that Sarazen won the 36-hole playoff the next day.
But if you come across the dispatch by W.F. Fox Jr. in The Indianapolis News, my guess is you’d learn even more about that famous happening. Here is how Fox set the stage, starting with Wood walking off his 72nd hole at 6-under par:
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