Sport: All Smiles

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Flubbing an 8-ft. putt which means a new course record and a long head start toward some big prize money would make most golfers look as glum as a sturgeon. But when it happened to dapper Lloyd Mangrum at Wykagyl Golf Course in New Rochelle, N.Y. last week, he just grinned and acted like a sweepstakes winner with his money in the bank.

Easygoing Lloyd Mangrum, who never lets his golf interfere with his good humor, kept right on smiling all through the go-hole Palm Beach Round Robin.* On the final hole, Mangrum had every reason to grin. He saved himself putting troubles by laying his approach shot within nudging distance of the hole, wound up with a winning 16-under-par for the tournament and $3,000. Tired little Ben Hogan, who had squeezed Winner Mangrum out of the U.S. Open playoff the week before, just went through the motions, finished eleventh in a field of 16.