Before Gene Sarazen's brainstorm, golfers hit bunker shots with niblicks — forerunners of the nine-iron. They tried to pick the ball clean off the sand. Then the Squire took his secret weapon to the '32 British Open. Afraid the R&A might ban it, he hid the funny-looking wedge under his overcoat. Sarazen won the Open and The New York Times fretted that his new club made golf "too easy."