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Tommy Armour


 

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1927

Champion: Tommy Armour*
Avg. score for the field: 78.6
Rounds under par for field: 2
Purse: $800
Entries: 898
*Defeated Harry Cooper in a playoff.

HISTORY LESSON

After taking 38 putts in the third round and 40 in the fourth, 1920 U.S. Open champ Ted Ray praised the greens and chided himself. "I thought of pasting a bit of stamp-paper on my putter blade," he said. "That slows your ball up a bit. And I tried three [different] putters — a rare thing for me. But I couldn't get the touch. Mind you, it's myself that was wrong, not the greens. The greens were the most beautiful, and the fastest, I have ever played on. But I couldn't do it."

 

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