Classic Masters, No 4: 1935
One of them was Gene Sarazen. Writers were filing their stories when Alan Gould of The Associated Press yelled into his mouthpiece, “Say that again!”
According to a remembrance by Charles Bartlett of the Chicago Tribune, Gould had been experimenting with short-wave radio to receive dispatches from the golf course. One of his assistants reported that Sarazen had made a 2 on the par-5 15th. Sure enough, Sarazen holed out from 235 yards for an albatross – it was called a double eagle that day – the rarest shot in golf. He closed with three pars to force a play-off. Sarazen beat Wood by five shots in the 36-hole play-off. The newspaper coverage brought so much attention to this quaint gathering in the South, and the Masters was never the same again.