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Sarazen hit " The shot heard ' round the world " in the 1935 Masters Tournament.
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Sarazen and hit
In spite of his height – he only stood tall – Sarazen could hit the ball a very long way, even when compared with larger, stronger players.
Sarazen and shot
The resulting plume of sand from such a shot was made famous by Sarazen as the " explosion shot " and is a common sight in televised golf events.
Sarazen and round
Manero defeated Cooper, who had already finished with a then-record score, by two shots to win the tournament ; over the final holes, Manero was apparently receiving assistance in club selection from Gene Sarazen, a top player and fellow Italian-American, who had already finished his round.
* Masters Tournament – Gene Sarazen fired a double eagle on the 15th hole in the final round to force an 18-hole playoff which Sarazen would win the next day.
Sarazen and world
Sarazen played several lengthy exhibition tours around the world, promoting his skills and the sport of golf, and earned a very good living from golf.
The three showed they could compete on even terms with the best players in the world, and American dominance of golf would be established by the early 1920s, assisted by stars like Gene Sarazen and Bobby Jones.
Sarazen and 1935
Gene Sarazen began to win tournaments in 1935 with a new club he had invented that was specialized for sand play.
Indeed, the first playoff in The Masters in 1935 was contested over 36 holes, when Gene Sarazen overcame Craig Wood.
Sarazen and Masters
For many years after his retirement, Sarazen was a familiar figure as an honorary starter at the Masters.
Sarazen and .
* 1902 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer ( d. 1999 )
* May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer ( b. 1902 )
** Gene Sarazen, American golfer ( d. 1999 )
Until 1999, he was joined by Gene Sarazen, and until 2001, by Byron Nelson.
During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, New Port Richey became the winter home of silent screen star Thomas Meighan and golfer Gene Sarazen ; Meighan attempted to bring other Hollywood figures to the city.
Gene Sarazen, one of the top golfers in the 1920s, also built a home in New Port Richey.
Gene Sarazen ( Eugenio Saraceni ) won both the Professional Golf Association and U. S. Open Tournaments in 1922.
Such golfers have included Fred McLeod, Jock Hutchinson, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.
Gene Sarazen, who stood at the 18th Green of St George's later said of Norman's achievement: " I never thought I would live to see golf played like this.
Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern Majors at any time during their career, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.
Gene Sarazen (; February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999 ) was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s.
Sarazen was born in Harrison, New York as Eugenio Saraceni.
Sarazen began caddying at age ten at local golf clubs, took up golf himself, and gradually developed his skills ; he was essentially self-taught.
Sarazen took a series of club professional jobs in the New York area from his mid-teens, and worked hard on his game.
Sarazen won his first major championships – the 1922 U. S. Open and PGA Championship – at age 20.
He was a contemporary and great rival of Bobby Jones, who was born in the same year ; Sarazen also had many great battles with Walter Hagen, who was about ten years older.
Sarazen, Jones, and Hagen were the world's dominant players during the 1920s.
The winner of 39 PGA Tournaments, Sarazen was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
Sarazen had previously struggled with his sand play.
The sand wedge also began to be used by top players for shots from grass, shortly after Sarazen introduced it, and this led to a revolution in short-game techniques, along with lower scoring by players who mastered the skills.
hit and shot
Pain shot up Curt's arm clear to the shoulder, but Jess seemed hardly aware that he had been hit.
I tested it in my scoped S & W and it was good enough to allow me to hit a chuck with every shot at 100 yards if I did my part by holding the handgun steadily.
When the shaken Palmer finally did hit his fourth shot, he overshot the hole by 15 feet.
He hit a poor tee shot, pulling it off into the pine woods separating the 9th and first fairways.
Player attacked with his four-wood and hit a shot that few who saw it will ever forget.
This is in fact incorrect, for a higher string tension can cause the shuttle to slide off the racquet and hence make it harder to hit a shot accurately.
The game's distinguishing feature is the " croquet " shot: when certain balls hit other balls, extra shots are allowed.
* Scatter shot: A continuation stroke used to hit a ball which may not be roqueted in order to send it to a less dangerous position.
Perry was shot twice ; one shot hit her right lung, the other shot severing her spine.
There, the Æsir hit Baldr with blows, shot objects at him, and some would hit him with stones.
Franz Beckenbauer then hit a low shot under the body of Bonetti, who had been slow to react.
During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.
The game finally ended in the 24th inning when Aspromonte hit a shot toward Mets shortstop Al Weis.
CC Sabathia was called to pitch his third game in a week, and was stellar, pitching a complete game, while Ryan Braun hit possibly the biggest home run in club history with a 2-run shot in the 8th inning to break a 1 – 1 tie.
The single shot to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number 1 in the UK and Australia.
Also, unlike a fully jacketed rifle bullet, each pellet of shot is less likely to penetrate walls and hit bystanders.
In the Making The Amazing documentary on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, both Tobey Maguire and Bruce Campbell jokingly describe Raimi's penchant for " abusing " actors: In order to get realistic closeups of a character getting hit by debris, Raimi usually stands just off-camera throwing items, swinging tree branches, etc., at the actor who is at the center of the shot.
Some servers are content to use the serve simply to initiate the point ; however, advanced players often try to hit a winning shot with their serve.
A volley is a shot returned to the opponent in mid-air before the ball bounces, generally performed near the net, and is usually made with a stiff-wristed punching motion to hit the ball into an open area of the opponent's court.
If the lob is not hit deeply enough into the other court, however, an opponent near the net may then hit an overhead smash, a hard, serve-like shot, to try to end the point.
* May 9 – The American general John Sedgwick is shot dead during the Battle of Spotsylvania, shortly after he uttered the famous last words: " They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance!
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