Originally Posted by dcg1952
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As a young lad here in Pittsburgh I used to deliver The Pittsburgh Press every late afternoon and Sunday morning to the neighborhood customers. Three doors up from my house a soon-to-retire couple moved in and I remember my mom telling me he had been a golf champion. Other than the U. S. Open I don't think he ever won anything else and went on to work for US Steel in the business world. When he retired he moved away and STILL owes me
$2.64 !!! Can you name him?? ( My parents made me write him a letter in the hopes the postal service would forward it, but never heard from him again!)
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The winner of the 1935 U.S. Open at Oakmont shot 299. Legend has it that he was the greatest 75-shooter of all time. Hard courses, easy courses...made no difference. He would always shoot the same number: 75. In 1935 at Oakmont, 4 days of 75 took home the prize. And that prize went to:
Sam Parks, Jr.