Sam Snead, still a superb ball-striker but shaky on the greens, had gone to croquet-style putting out of desperation during the second round of the 1966 PGA Championship after, as Al Barkow ...

Snead remedied his late-career putting yips with a croquet-style putting stance. When that was outlawed, he switched to side-saddle, which he used for the remainder of his career. And then, along ...

Sam Snead, a seven-time major champion, is one of the most notable names to find success sidesaddle putting. Snead, still a superb ball-striker but shaky on the greens later in his career, switched to ...

These were some of the things that happened in 1935: Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski led the Bears to a 13-0 season. John Dillinger was shot to death in Chicago. Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in conn… ...

Sam Snead, whose picture-perfect golf swing carried him to a record 81 PGA Tour victories including three Masters -- and earned him a reputation as one of the most gifted athletes to play the game ...

Sam Snead gambled with the "graveyard of the Masters," the tortuous thirteenth hole, and beat Ben Hogan by a stroke in an 18-hole playoff for the Masters golf title Monday.

Sam Snead turned 88 on May 27, yet remains one of golf’s most irascible and irreplaceable figures. He still has nearly the same ability to swing, and zing.

DUBLIN, Ohio, May 23 -- The last time I saw Sam Snead, he was being hustled away from the Augusta National clubhouse and into a waiting car last month. Only a few minutes earlier, he had performed ...

No one won more than Sam Snead, and not many looked better doing it. Despite his record 81 victories on the PGA Tour and an ageless game that kept him competitive into his 60s, "Slammin' Sam," who ...

J.C. Snead, who knew he could never match the golfing success of his celebrated uncle Sam Snead but who nevertheless won a combined 12 tournaments on the PGA Tour and senior tour, died on April 25 ...

Sam Snead, a seven-time major champion, is one of the most notable names to find success sidesaddle putting. Snead, still a superb ball-striker but shaky on the greens later in his career, switched to ...