Well before the teenager tacked one golf legend’s achievements on his bedroom wall for inspiration—a newspaper-clipping timeline of Jack Nicklaus’ milestones—the child took a 75-mile trip from his ...

Editor’s note: This is a new series on the 70th anniversary of Golf Digest commemorating the best literature we’ve ever published. Each entry includes an introduction that celebrates the author or ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)-- 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. Snead ...

Sam Snead, the golfing great known as ``Slammin' Sam'' who used the sweetest swing in the game to win seven major championships and a record 81 PGA Tour events, died Thursday at age 89. Snead died at ...

J.C. Snead, an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and ’80s and four-time winner on PGA Tour Champions, died April 25 from complications with cancer in Hot Springs, Va. The nephew of World ...

"Slammin' Sam" Snead could hit the ball a country mile with a swing that was the sweetest in golf. "It was a gift, something you can't teach," two-time U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange said. "His ...

Images of 82-time PGA Tour winner and World Golf Hall of Fame member Sam Snead. Portrait of American golfer Sam Snead (1912 - 2002) smiling with a golf club at the Metropolitan Open golf tournament in ...