GENE SARAZEN - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED 1989 CO-SIGNED BY: SAM "SLAMMING SAMMY" SNEAD - HFSID 140353
Sale Price $595.00
Reg. $700.00
GENE SARAZEN and SAM SNEAD. First Day Cover signed: "Gene Sarazen/1989" and "Sam Snead", 6¼x3½. FDC honoring "America's First Golf Hero" Francis D. Ouimet, 25-cent stamp affixed, postmarked Brookline, MA, June 13, 1988, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. GENE SARAZEN (1902-1999) won seven Major titles, including two U.S. Opens, three PGA championships (including the first two in 1922 and 1923), one Masters and one British Open. He won the 1935 Masters with the most famous shot in golf history, holing his second shot from 220 yards out for a double eagle on Augusta's par 5 fifteenth hole. A six-time member of American Ryder Cup teams, Sarazen scored a hole-in-one at the British Open at the age of 71. In his later years, he was a popular golf commentator. "Slammin' Sammy" SAM SNEAD (1912-2002) won both the Masters and the PGA three times and the British Open once. In 1965, Snead became the oldest player (52 years, ten months) to win a PGA tournament (the Greater Greensboro Open). He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1953. Slightly creased at blank area to right of cachet. Fine condition. Framed in the Gallery of History style: 24x17.
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