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Recent comments on Sam Snead
Raymond Filip in Montreal writes:
"I played Cascades in the rain, having made my golfing pilgrimage to Sam Snead's legendary course in Hot Springs during the summer of 2004.
It felt great -- as well as mushy -- to be walking (mostly up) the same blind fairways that Sam Snead once did, barefoot as a child. When I was 11-years-old, growing up in Montreal, I had no interest in golf until one day, while flipping through TV channels, I saw Sam Snead's swing! I stopped changing channels and started flipping over golf! I was too young back then to realize that what had struck me was poetry in motion.
Now, as an award-winning Canadian poet who has written 6 books, I say precious little material on my shelf can equal the contributions to grace and beauty and civility that golf has offered in the likes of characters such as Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Tiger Woods, and of course -- Swingin' Sammy Snead, as he preferred to be called!" (June 8th, 2006)
COMMENTS FROM 2004:
Denny from Cedar Rapids
says:
"I saw Sam play an exhibition in Champaign, Illinois in 1965. He was to play the state am champion at the young man's (19) home course, Champaign Country Club. Many felt sorry for the old man before the match. The state am champ shot 73. Sam made the turn in 35. Came back with a 29! Easiest 64 you can imagine!!"
Gene from Colorado
writes:
"It is with a heavy heart that I learn of the death of Sam Snead. There is, never was, nor will there ever be, a golfer with a smoother swing. He was grace personified."
GK White says:
"The majors were different in the day of the young Snead, Hogan and
Nelson. Snead should have consideration as the greatest player ever. No one will catch the
Snead record of 84 tournaments."
COMMENTS FROM 2003:
Ron Ireland from Memphis
writes:
"Thank goodness I was fortunate enough to see Mr. Snead play and practice on several occasions in the 1970's and 1980's period. I'm aware he was not at his peak, but I've never seen anything more
naturally beautiful than the way he struck a golf ball even then. He was constantly being interrupted by younger players for advice which he seemed very willing to give.
Much more important than my views are two of the all time great ball strikers, Ben Hogan, and Lee Trevino, rated by Dave Pelz.
Hogan was once asked why Snead didn't write as much golf swing theory as Hogan. Hogan
reportedly said - "Sam Snead don't know a damn thing about hitting a golf ball. He just does it better than anyone else."
Lee Trevino has said if he were teaching a youngster to play golf today he would show them tapes of Sam Snead."
COMMENTS FROM 2002:
John from the UK
has this to say:
"He had the most graceful effortless golf swing I have ever seen. He was so supple that even in his sixties he could do a high kick a foot above his own head. He managed to finish 3rd in the US PGA when he was 62 years old and has shot lower than his age hundreds of times. Even in his Eighties he was capable of breaking 80 for 18 holes!"